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Sexual misconduct crisis rages on in Canada's military

The latest from Canada’s military sexual misconduct crisis. Why hasn’t the government stripped the military of jurisdiction over sexual offences?
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'I didn't get the justice that I deserve,' said retired corporal Arianna Nolet after a judge stayed the sexual assault charge in her case because it took too long to get to trial. (Submitted by retired corporal Arianna Nolet)

One of Canada's first military sexual assault cases to be transferred to a civilian court since late 2021 will never go to trial because it took too long to get there. Is this a foreshadowing of what's to come, in addressing the Canadian Armed Forces' decades-long sexual misconduct crisis?

CBC senior reporter Ashley Burke explains. 

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