Madam Speaker, I do not know what my colleague at the end of the House is talking about or why she would want to rush it. We have to examine this bill here so that we can hear what our other colleagues are concerned about. Even just looking at the bill itself, it says:
Every victim has the right, on request, to information about....the offender while they are in a service prison or detention barrack...
Are they not getting that information now?
In “Protection from intimidation and retaliation”, it says:
....in the military justice system to protect the victim from intimidation and retaliation.
Do these protections not already exist for the protection of the victim?
On detention in a barrack, it is my experience that it is not the perpetrator who is detained in a barrack or a prison. Right now, it is the victim who is separated from her unit.
On “Privacy” it says:
Every victim has the right to have their privacy considered by the appropriate authorities....
However, nothing is going to be guaranteed.
This is the type of thing that we want to raise now, because in committee, quite frankly, there is the tyranny of the majority, and things just get rammed through.