Thank you to all for being here again today.
This week, we sadly saw the new numbers come from StatsCan on the military sexual trauma issue. You've repeatedly said you're committed to enacting Justice Arbour's recommendations. Certainly this involves her fifth recommendation, but we haven't seen the full measures that we need to see, and considering what came out of that StatsCan report, it's extremely worrying.
Those crimes are on the increase. Certainly the reporting is on the increase and not on the decrease. I would argue that many of the survivors of military sexual trauma are losing quite a lot of faith in the system and in the help they need to get, considering report after report. It's not getting better.
I brought forward a bill—and I've talked to you about this in committee before—to end the concurrent jurisdiction for criminal sexual offences, because ultimately those who have started in the military justice system were shunted to civilian court. They were then told they weren't going to get their day in court. They're in this in-between period.
You have a bill before you now that I introduced. I would like to know if you will take that bill as soon as you possibly can, which is immediately, to ensure that those survivors receive the justice they deserve.