“Mr. Speaker, first of all, I want to thank my colleague from Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles for his service to Canada as a veteran, as a former commanding officer, whose family, his own son, is in the Royal Canadian Navy. My colleague talks about what we heard in testimony from those witnesses. There are more experts on military justice than just the one or two or three justices who have filed reports to the Department of National Defence and to ministers of national defence over the last 12 years. Some of them we heard from in testimony, such as the former director of military prosecutions, retired Colonel Bruce MacGregor, who said, “Taking the choice away from an informed victim is paternalistic and a further disenfranchisement of a victim who has already been rendered powerless by the perpetrator.” Does my colleague believe that what the Liberals are doing, by not listening to the victims and not keeping in place the amendments that multiple parties made together to improve Bill C-11, is again going to empower the perpetrators and undermine the freedom of the victim?”
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The question 7%Positioning 93%
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Mr. Speaker, The question · 6 wordsthe answer is pretty clear: yes.Positioning · 82 wordsAs I mentioned in my speech, the Liberals always turn a deaf ear when victims speak out.Unearned certaintyThis is not a new phenomenon.We have seen it across the board with respect to the Criminal Code, the justice system, Unearned certaintyand crimes against women.They have always turned a deaf ear and a blind eye.Unearned certaintyFor our part, we can never understand why this government turns a deaf ear to victims’ problems and does not seek real solutions to help them get justice.PositioningOff point
