My question is for Senator Gold. On the issue of victims in the Canadian Armed Forces, the more reports are made public, the more we realize that there is one common denominator here, and his name is Harjit Sajjan.

First of all, it was the Liberal government that gave military tribunals jurisdiction to hear sexual assault cases in 1998.

Twenty-three years later, the report from former Supreme Court Justice Morris Fish revealed that that system was completely ineffective and called for the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights to be incorporated into military law so that victims could file their complaints in civilian courts.

In response to one of my questions two weeks ago, you told me that the government was redoing its homework from 2017.

The Fish report suggests a very simple solution that should have been implemented two years ago, in 2019, which never happened.

Don’t you think that the Minister of Defence, who has done nothing on this issue for a year now, should resign?

Allow me to contradict you. With respect to the enforcement of the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights and civilian courts for military members, the minister did not commit in any way to implementing this recommendation from Justice Fish.

If the government’s position is not to ask for the resignation of the Minister of National Defence, who has done nothing on this file for a year, don’t you think that with all due respect to the women in the Armed Forces watching us this afternoon, and to Canadian women who are at risk in similar situations, the message being sent to these women is that this file is not a priority for the government?