Time for Canada to improve military tribunals, not abolish them

Canada is obliged under its international commitments to maintain a system of military justice.

Canadian Armed Forces' medical team members, pictured May 13, 2019, evacuating a simulated casualty in a CH-147F Chinook helicopter during an aeromedical evacuation exercise as part of Operation Presence. Photograph courtesy Cpl. François Charest 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron (430 Tac Hel Sqn)

Opinion

BY RORY FOWLER

June 10, 2020

KINGSTON, ONT.—In the June 8, 2020, edition of The Hill Times, the headline that called for the abolishment of military tribunals in Canada may have been a bit misleading. Many of the suggestions offered in the accompanying article suggested reform of courts martial, rather than their out...

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