We heard from witnesses that we need to put time limitations on these appointments. We heard from Charlotte Duval-Lantoine at the 12th meeting of this committee. She said, “The challenge is that the Governor in Council has not been the most prompt at appointing key decision-makers. It took four years to appoint our current chief military judge. It took over a year to appoint our current...ombudsman. This needs to change.”
We heard from Rory Fowler, who said, “As a perfect example, there need to be time limits and limitation periods for people to take action to appoint key personnel”, and “Now you're making them political appointees who may or may not be appointed in time.” This requires political leadership. This is a political decision, not a military decision.
Afton David said, “I agree with my fellow witnesses that there should be a limit on the time taken to fill Governor in Council appointments for key military justice roles.”
We heard from witnesses on this. We need to put in a time frame. It's not unreasonable to get this done in 90 days.