Military Grievances External Review Committee’s 2025-26 Departmental plan at a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.

• Vision, mission, raison d’être and operating context

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Key priorities

The Military Grievances External Review Committee’s (the Committee) top priorities for 2025-26 are as follows:

• The People

We will prioritize employee well-being and employee engagement. We will invest in our team by acting on employee feedback, expanding professional development opportunities, and enhancing our onboarding and training programs. We are committed to advancing reconciliation, anti-racism, equity, inclusion and accessibility while also cultivating a healthy, respectful, safe and supportive work environment.

• The Work and the Workplace

We will enhance operational effectiveness by streamlining our grievance review process and by identifying other efficiencies. This includes exploring how we could leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exploring options to simplify our findings and recommendations (F&R) reports. We will also refine our governance structure, streamline statutory reporting, and enhance its digital security posture to ensure the efficient and secure operation of all systems and processes. These improvements will enable us to deliver high-quality results while optimizing our resources and ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of our services.

• The Committee’s Reach

We will strengthen our communication and engagement strategies to enhance stakeholder awareness and understanding of our role and added value to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) grievance system. We will also endeavour to enhance employee engagement via an updated internal communications plan. Lastly, we will commemorate our 25^th anniversary, reflecting on our achievements and looking towards the future.

Highlights

In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the Committee is $8,511,433 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 53. For complete information on the Committee’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.

The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Core responsibility 1: The Independent review of military grievances

Planned spending: $6,063,115

Planned human resources: 39

Departmental results:

• Findings and Recommendations on all referred military grievances are provided in a timely manner; and
• The Committee provides Findings and Recommendations to the Final Authority (FA) that are clear, complete and useful in the military grievances decision-making process.

In 2025-26, we will prioritize enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of our grievance review process. This will involve streamlining case processing through initiatives such as exploring AI applications, streamlining our F&R reports and optimizing employee training. We will also focus on updating our departmental performance indicators to ensure that our results are adequately measured. Moreover, we will adapt our processes to address evolving caseloads and operational challenges, ensuring we remain agile and responsive to the needs of the CAF grievance system.

More information about the Independent review of military grievances can be found in the full plan.