Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I too have a motion. I presented notice a while ago. Unfortunately, we haven't gotten to it.
It's ultimately in response to a number of the stories that we've heard coming forward from people within the military or the department about the abuse they have suffered, whether that's military sexual trauma or other forms of abuse, and then facing harsh repercussions in their careers.
Survivors have been forced to ATIP themselves in order to get the necessary documents for legal claims, and they've come to quite a lot of non-responses or very long wait times on those inquiries, so I think it's important, when we're talking about that public trust and that transparency that's required for a lot of what's going on, that we study the following:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee undertake a study into transparency of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces, that includes but is not limited to: The Access to Information and Privacy System; the independence of the office of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces Ombudsman; the declassification system for historic documents; whistleblower protections; the independence of the Grievance process; and information management systems.
That the committee invite the Canadian Armed Forces Chief of Defence Staff, the Corporate Secretary at the Department of National Defence, the Minister of National Defence, the Information Commissioner, the National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces Ombudsman, the chairperson of the Military Grievance and External Review Committee, veterans and veteran advocates.