“Mr. Speaker, I really appreciate the member’s comment that a sexual assault is a sexual assault. I think that does need to be reinforced. As parliamentarians, we have an obligation to seek the best advice possible. The Arbour report contained 48 recommendations, I believe, the vast majority of which have been implemented. The essence of its primary recommendation is in the bill, which is to convert from the military system to the civilian system. Given Justice Arbour’s efforts, would the member not agree that we should be abiding by that recommendation, as the Conservatives did just two years ago?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 14 wordsI agree completely with the hon. member that this was Justice Arbour’s core recommendation.Positioning · 49 wordsI am rather disheartened to hear a pattern of members’ trying to diminish the results of Justice Arbour by saying, “by this one justice”.It is part of a greater and very disturbing trend of demeaning and diminishing the results of experts and of using “expert” as a pejorative.PositioningUnearned certaintyClaims · 37 wordsJustice Arbour was a former Supreme Court justice who talked to hundreds of witnesses, hundreds of victims, 12Off pointand determined that the best course of action would be for these cases to be tried solely by civilian courts.
