National Defence committee  I want to thank the member for his question. It should be noted that the military justice system plays an important role in addressing sexual misconduct issues in the Canadian Armed Forces. The system works in partnership with the other systems in place in the Canadian Armed For

National Defence committee  May I answer, Madam Chair?

National Defence committee  Thank you. As mentioned by the minister and the deputy minister, we've been hearing, as of late, that the main problem for those who wanted to take action was to know what to do and where to turn to take action. We very rapidly looked at a way to have a consolidated resource ava

National Defence committee  Hello, Madam Chair. May I answer the question?

National Defence committee  We at National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces encourage all members to report any incident of inappropriate sexual behaviour. Allegations of service offences are investigated when a complaint is made or where there are other reasons to believe that a service offence may ha

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, may I have the floor?

National Defence committee  Thank you. First, I would like to specify that I will not comment on the current situation. However, I think it's important to indicate that the publicly available defence administrative order and directive DAOD 7002-0, dealing with boards of inquiry, provides, in paragraph 2.7,

National Defence committee  I am aware that those concerns have been shared with the committee. Unfortunately, this does not fall under my area of responsibility. It would have to be addressed by the chain of command.

National Defence committee  I'm going to pass it over to my specialist in these types of granular data. I'm going to ask my colleague Jill to answer.

National Defence committee  We would have to do some analysis to see how to get there. However, I would like to say at the outset that tribunals generally prefer to have specific offences, because when you have more general offences to address a specific behaviour, tribunal courts in Canada have a tendency

National Defence committee  We have conducted quite significant analysis since 2018, as we committed to the committee at the time and we have elected to do it. That's the answer that I'm providing to you. I'm saying that there could be second and third degrees of effect of repealing a specific offence withi

National Defence committee  We do not monitor those data in the military justice system, but perhaps my colleague Dr. Jetly has the information.

National Defence committee  I'm sorry, I don't believe that is what I meant or said.

National Defence committee  I think that Dr. Jetly is in a better position to answer that question.

National Defence committee  That question is for me, I assume.