Okay, so what is he going to do about it? Seems that the Ombudsman gets angry, brings up a number of good points/recommendations - but nothing ever gets done (or so it seems).
I am not sure who moved this thread to the VAC group, but it is not really about VAC, it is about the military's treatment of this. Can it please be moved back to Military News?
Forces ombudsman calls on MPs to make his office independent of National Defence
Gregory Lick says he shouldn't be tied to the department he's supposed to oversee
Canada's military watchdog used what could be one of his last appearances before a House of Commons committee on Monday to renew a push to make his office fully independent from the Department of National Defence (DND).
Gregory Lick, the Canadian Forces ombudsman, has long argued that his office should report to Parliament and not the department.
"Without legislation, my organization is subject to oversight and investigation by the same department it is mandated to oversee," Lick told the Commons defence committee, which is examining a lack of transparency within DND. "The conflict here is obvious."
It makes no sense that Canada doesn't have legislated independent military oversight like the other members of the Five Eyes alliance, Lick added.
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