I do believe the class action process is one way that survivors may take the opportunity to come forward through that reconciliation process.
I hope that process is spurred by the momentum we're seeing now. I also believe that survivors in uniform will come forward if they believe they are going to be supported, that their chain of command will have their backs and that they will not face repudiation for coming forward now.
I also truly believe that we're not going to get out of this by punishing every man in the CAF who has misbehaved in the past 30 years. The Canadian Armed Forces needs to move forward by accepting its failures. Obviously, there are those egregious abuses of power that need to be dealt with, but there needs to be acknowledgement, reconciliation, a chance to share, be sad about the culture, and then move forward all together on a new path.
Taking down every single senior officer who has misbehaved in the past is not the way forward, I don't think.