How to fix the Canadian Forces’ grievance system
Despite efforts by successive chiefs of defence staff to delegate their statutory responsibilities down, the backlog and delays in the military grievance system are worse than ever. But the growing backlog in the CAF grievance system is due in large part to the broad wording of Sec. 29 of the National Defence Act which permits a member to grieve practically anything. This is an expensive and inappropriate use of energies and resources.
OTTAWA—The Canadian Forces grievance process has been in a shambles for years, mostly attributable to excessive delay. In 1998, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Antonio Lamer, in his first independent review of the National Defence Act wrote, “Soldiers are not second-clas...
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