From how changes in sexual offences in the military will be addressed, to controversial attempts at getting recruitment numbers up, the defence minister joins us in studio.
From how changes in sexual offences in the military will be addressed, to controversial attempts at getting recruitment numbers up, the defence minister joins us in studio to talk about his new directives. This, as Global News broke the story JTF2, Canada’s elite counter-terrorism and hostage rescue unit is in Haiti to help protect the Canadian embassy.Mercedes Stephenson: Plus, carbon showdown.
Under the proposed legislation, cases involving criminal sexual misconduct will be handled by civilian police and civilian courts but only if they happened in Canada. Bill Blair, Defence Minister: I have an enormous respect for them. I know that they’re up to the task. I think that all of us have a responsibility to come together, recognize what needs to be done and go get it done. It needs—we need to make significant new investments. I’ve said that many times. I’ve said that to my government as well. We need to make new investments in defence.
Bill Blair, Defence Minister: Yeah, they are. To be honest with you, a very robust discussion taking place on how we do what needs to be done. There’s a very strong acknowledgement: it needs to be done. I mean there are—there’s a lot of other, you know, competing challenges that the country faces, but we recognize the importance of investing in the Canadian Armed Forces and most importantly, investing in men and women who serve.
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Rick Smith, President, Canadian Climate Institute: Well I mean this climate discussion’s very important, and our hope with this new report is to provide a little bit more light and take some of the heat out of this debate. And what we’ve done is really try to take a look at which policies are important in terms of moving us forward with climate progress and how they country’s been doing, and so I think these numbers will be helpful to move us forward in a more productive way.
Rick Smith, President, Canadian Climate Institute: Well I think it’s important to point out here that we took a look at a variety, a kind of basket of policies that the country now has in place, and these policies are working together to bring down emissions, and in fact, if you extrapolate out to 2030, the policies that we already have in place will reduce emissions about 40 per cent below what they would be if we didn’t have this series of policies.
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