As the sexual misconduct crisis has engulfed the military, critics have pointed repeatedly to the Liberal government's failure to fully enact C-77 — legislation that inserts a victims' bill of rights into the separate justice system for the Armed Forces.
Almost two years after it was passed by the Senate, the law still hasn't come into force because new regulations have not yet been drafted.
Victims of crime in the military have long been denied the same rights as civilians — including the right to information about the status of a complaint or charge — because they are subject to a separate justice system. That's something C-77 was supposed to correct.
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