Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his question. I think he has raised a point that really needs to be addressed.
We have gotten to a point on this file where the trust is so low that we need to move these kinds of offences into the criminal justice system. I really cannot help but wonder what would have happened if the Liberal government had acted faster during the 10 years it had to do this. I wonder if we could have gotten to a point where members of our armed forces had an opportunity to work this out internally and were able to build that trust.
We cannot go back. We can only move forward, and for as long as this has taken, we hope the government will take our advice and continue to work on this bill.