Victims of CAF sexual misconduct can get legal fees reimbursed through new fund
Global News
Officials told reporters that they are launching a call for members of the defence community who've been the victims of sexual misconduct to join a consultation group.
The military’s independent sexual misconduct support and resource centre is creating a new fund to help victims pay for legal services, defence officials said Thursday.
The centre will review applications to reimburse military members and those who say they have faced misconduct by a military member for their legal fees for criminal proceedings, and for up to four hours of legal advice.
They can attest to ‘it was an incident of sexual misconduct,'” said Linda Rizzo Michelin, the response centre’s chief operating officer, during a briefing to reporters on the Canadian Armed Forces’ efforts to stamp out sexual misconduct.
“So it’s not regarding reporting or an investigation or anything of that kind. We’re looking to support the individuals that need this type of independent legal assistance.”
That was one of the 48 recommendations made by former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour in a May 2022 report.
Arbour’s review was prompted by what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then called a “failing of the entire system,” at a time when sexual misconduct scandals had led to the departures of several high-ranking members of the military.
The Defence Department laid out a plan last December to implement those changes.
One of the report’s “most impactful” calls, the department said in a media release Thursday, was the recommendation to transfer jurisdiction of criminal sexual offences from the Canadian Armed Forces to the civilian justice system.
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