If I'm understanding the question correctly, we've already consulted a number of people, and we've had all these reports. Is it not enough?
I'd just like to comment, as someone who's been adjacent to all of those commissions and has been involved, including as a witness to them as well, that sometimes it appears that there's some cherry-picking of what was said and how it was said. Certainly, it's been my lived experience that during that time period especially, when there was a very united concern that we needed the cases moved to civilian.... What I keep hearing not included in that political discussion is the fact that we needed the cases moved to civilian because our rights were not the same at that time. It was only at such time that they were equivalent that it would be better to be coming back.
Again, the problem was duty to report. We had an obligation by law. We were potentially getting charged if we did not report, yet we had no supports when we reported. We had no legal access when we reported. We had no victims' rights when we reported. We didn't have an SMSRC when we reported. Under those circumstances, I think the community was fairly strong that we needed to move. Those were the conversations, in my memory, of what really helped force Deschamps and Arbour to feel so strongly on this.
Again, not knowing if it's possible, I personally would love to hear from those two amazing justices on where they sit under the present situation, because it's not the same military situation.
