Opinion
Sajjan deserves applause for ‘transformational’ military justice reforms
By Joshua Juneau, Michel Drapeau May. 14, 2018
Bill C-77 will make the change the way the military system deals with victims and the accused.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan introduced a bill into the House last week to bring in major reforms to the military justice system, including taking away the power of military officers to impose penal consequences on soldiers without a formal trial. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
OTTAWA—Change is afoot on the military justice file, and it's not all bad news. On May 10, 2018, Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan introduced a bill entitled “An Act to amend the National Defence Act and to Make Related and Consequential Amendments to other Acts." If enacted, this bill will introduce significant changes to the military summary trial system; reforms that critics of the military justice system, including these authors, have advocated for more than 10 years.
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