On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation to move ahead with Arbour’s key recommendation for the country’s military.
The bill before parliament would put into law Arbour’s 2022 recommendation to strip the Canadian Armed Forces of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences, leaving that to civilian authorities instead.
The Liberals voted on Tuesday to drop a Conservative amendment to the bill that would have given victims of sexual offences the right to choose whether their cases are tried by the military or civilian judicial system.
