National Defence committee  Based on the statistics from the JAG annual reports over the last 10 years on summary trials, I do not see how Bill C-77 would change the landscape that greatly, considering the nature of the offences tried at the unit level and the sentences—the punishments—handed out at the uni

National Defence committee  I have provided the clerk with my written submissions. They will be translated and then provided to the committee. I have 15 recommendations in my written submissions. I've also provided you with three annexes that contain what I think is useful information for when you are consi

National Defence committee  No, because, on the issue of summary hearings, these changes to military justice, Bill C-71 and Bill C-77 are practically identical. The major fundamental change, which is critical, changes the summary trial to a summary hearing, thus keeping basically what I consider, as I disc

National Defence committee  As far as I'm concerned, yes.

National Defence committee  Correct. That is also very problematic, because there's a lot we don't know about the consequences of Bill C-77. The infractions will be defined in regulations. The procedures will be defined in regulations. There's nothing in the bill that tells us exactly where we're heading fr

National Defence committee  Good afternoon. My name is Jean-Guy Perron, and I am a retired lieutenant-colonel. I enlisted in 1978 and graduated from the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean. From 1983 to 1990, at the start of my career, I was an infantry officer with the Royal 22nd Regiment and the 1st Ba