It has. The two most important words related to our objective with Bill C-11 are “trust” and “transparency”, and we need to enhance both. We need to make sure our Canadian Armed Forces is fit for purpose for the 21st century and fit for purpose for the women and men of the forces.
It's very important, as I said in a speech last Friday to 500 individuals, and it is time for us to expunge this behaviour from the Canadian Armed Forces. We need a high-performing force; they're high-performing now, and they need to be even more high-performing going forward. You cannot have that if you have lingering trust problems in the system. You cannot have that if there isn't a predictable, transparent pathway to deal with this kind of conduct, which is exactly what we're trying to address.
