Mr. Justice Alan Mahon:

Different countries have different systems, but I know the UK Service Complaints Ombudsman has quite extensive jurisdiction in terms of dealing with, for example, bullying issues, including harassment. In Canada, the National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces Ombudsman has quite extensive powers. In fact, the Canadians have done exhaustive, detailed work on the whole area of sexual harassment and gender issues within the defence forces. They have done quite an impressive piece of work. Other ombudsman institutions have perhaps more extensive jurisdiction that we have, but if I were to look close enough, I would probably find others that do not even have the level of jurisdiction that I have.