Canada's military still doesn't know how many sexual-misconduct complaints it has actually resolved, its external monitor found in her final report.
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In her sixth and final status report, dated 5 November 2025, External Monitor Jocelyne Therrien, appointed to oversee the Arbour review's 48 recommendations, wrote that 'the CAF does not know the scope of the problem, nor the extent to which individual complaints/situations have been resolved', because its databases capture intake but not outcomes. She found 'dispersed accountability and extensive delays', in part because uniformed members on two-to-three-year postings were writing policy, and listed recommendations still not done, including a review of psychometric screening and Justice Fish's recommended service offences for sexual misconduct. Defence Minister David McGuinty said on 20 November 2025 that 36 of the 48 recommendations had been addressed. Bill C-11, which removes military jurisdiction over Criminal Code sexual offences committed in Canada, received Royal Assent on 18 June 2026.
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