Mr. Speaker, I am directing the hon. member's attention to the impugned section, which says that the Vice Chief of the Defence Staff may issue instructions or guidelines in respect of a particular investigation.
Would the hon. member care to comment on whether that is only guidelines, which are restricted to live fire exercises, zones of conflict or any other variety of things where Canadian Forces might find themselves?
In my judgment, and I am assuming he would agree with me, this is a wide open field. At any point, at any time, the VCDS could issue instructions to a Provost Marshal and guide the instructions of the police to investigate in a particular way or not in a particular way.
I would be interested in his observations with respect to the drafting of subsection 3.