Liberal MPs issue their own recommendations on military sexual misconduct — bypassing the opposition

After weeks of filibustering, Liberal MPs on the House of Commons defence committee have done an end-run around the opposition by issuing their own list of recommendations on addressing the sexual misconduct crisis in the Canadian military.

The Liberals offered up 24 proposals in all; the most notable one calls for an expansion of the mandate of the Department of National Defence’s Sexual Misconduct Response Centre (SMRC).

In a statement issued late today, the Liberal MPs said that they want to see SMRC become “the primary reporting resource for criminal and non-criminal sexual misconduct.”

The recommendations fall well short of a complete, non-partisan report — which is what Commons committees usually