Mr. Speaker, I will repeat myself in French for my colleague's benefit. Victims and survivors deserve legal clarity, transparency and trust in the process. Justice Arbour herself described a victim's choice between military and civilian courts as a false choice. I want to emphasize the word “false”. Indeed, that would amount to placing a burden on the victim of having to choose between two unequal options, all at a time of stress and trauma.
Ultimately, asking victims and survivors to choose between two unequal options, one of which has the potential for chain-of-command interference, in a Criminal Code case does not provide victims with clarity, transparency or certainty.