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House Hansard - 339

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 19, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Ms. Viviane Lapointe (Sudbury, Lib.)
  • Sep/19/24 2:54:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Standing Committee on National Defence, I hear from experts, members and academics alike about the importance of creating a respectful and professional work environment for the brave men and women of our armed forces. Over the past two years, Canadians have watched as Supreme Court justices Arbour and Fish have put forward recommendations to modernize Canada's military justice system. Can the Minister of National Defence please update this House on the progress we are making on these very important recommendations?
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Hon. John McKay
  • Sep/19/24 4:13:14 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, we would all wish to move more rapidly; that is a given. Even Madam Justice Arbour, who is very familiar with how legislation gets created and implemented, recognized this was going to take time. I am rather pleased that during the interim, the government has, in many instances, responded quite significantly to the other recommendations that Madam Justice Arbour put forward and that have been in various stages of implementation. It is legitimate on the part of the hon. member to continue to call the government to account for the recommendations she has made.
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Bryan May (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business and to the Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, Lib.)
  • Sep/19/24 5:00:18 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am not going to speak to specific cases, because I do not have all that information in front of me. However, I will say once again that we have to work closely with the provinces. We have to encourage the provinces to make sure they are investing effectively. This recommendation to move recommendation 5 from the Arbour report was a pillar recommendation. This was not a soft recommendation. This absolutely needs to be done, and we have moved in that direction. We know that this is what the stakeholders were asking us to do. We know that there are going to be challenges as we move forward with respect to resourcing and making sure that the provinces are properly equipped to manage. However, again, this is a provincial-level issue and a provincial-level question.
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Bryan May
  • Sep/19/24 5:02:24 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I will try to keep it brief, but there is a lot in the question that deserves an answer. I too want to see the bill go to committee. I was the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of National Defence when the meat and potatoes of the study from Arbour came through, and the work we have done on this has been critical. I agree wholeheartedly with the member opposite, and I think we will work together. I will point out that this is the first piece of legislation in 18 months that I hope and believe we will see full party support for.
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Sep/19/24 5:12:00 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, yes, the Arbour report did clearly recommend this legislative change, but so did the Deschamps report years earlier. This was a legislative change that was recommended almost 10 years ago and accepted by the previous government, but it sat on the current government's desk without movement for years. Here we are now, nine years into the Liberal government, in the twilight of this Parliament, trying to implement a change that should have been at least initiated close to 10 years ago. Does the member know why the government, for which she is a spokesperson, waited so long for this legislative change?
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