Yes, those with money and power use it to manipulate the system for their own gain. This isn't dramatically different from the courts, where straight-up legal costs prevent you from maintaining litigation against a major corporation through discovery, let alone through a trial and subsequent appeals process.
This is, again, with the point that ADR is much better suited to a contract dispute than a tort.
Excuse my silence. Two midterms out of the way, i digress..
Alternative Dispute Resolution is something that the Canadian forces adopted about five years ago as a way of solving redresses of grievance (the process for saying you're being fucked over, enshrined in the national defense act) and was developed by subject matter experts, and taught down to multiple levels down to the junior leader (IE me), and the shit works wonders between bad blood, not to mention gives a junior soldier a better idea of why he's being fucked over.
It was used as a cost-saving measure, and a way to slow down the pace of the redresses which were clogging the paper channels. So far, it is working.
ADR in the Canadian Forces is voluntary, but only touches bad blood between individuals, regardless of rank or difference of rank, and mediation sessions with ADR experts
internal to the CF are available on the agreement of consenting parties. Sometimes a little pressure outside the chain helps on the other party, but in the end that's alright because ADR is never used as a mechanism to prove who is 'right' and who is 'wrong', but instead give an idea of 'why' things got that way including the thought patterns of all parties.
It's effective, and I love it for what it does. It's voluntary, and if it doesn't work, you can still redress as your whim.
However, what ADR isn't for is anything that could be covered under the criminal code. That's when the police should step in.
In the case of Haliburton and rape, fuck yeah -> but one of my biggest points is that they're only stopping at military contractors.
There are other places where people get contracted, home and abroad where local laws become more grey.
