Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to reiterate that. Afton makes a very important point about recommendation 68 and the follow-on in terms of the victims' rights bill.
The other thing that has to be pointed out is that the SMSRC now has funding to have legal representation in court on certain in-court and pretrial applications. That's not universally provided from province to province and territory to territory. These are things that we can have through the military justice system that would be consistent in all 13 other jurisdictions.
That wasn't considered back in 2015, and it doesn't seem to be considered as a factor in putting this bill forward today. I think there has been a lot of water under the bridge. There's a huge reliance upon the fact that the civilian justice system is still far in advance of the military justice system in victim protection.
