CAF Advocacy Project is an independent, member-focused platform created to help Canadian Armed Forces members navigate complex, opaque, and often harmful administrative systems, including grievances and other career-impacting processes.
The project is run by a former CAF Military Police member with extensive firsthand experience working within, navigating, and being subjected to CAF administrative, conduct, and Code of Service Discipline processes. This experience includes significant involvement with grievances, summary trials, courts martial, administrative reviews, and a wide range of administrative actions. The work is grounded not only in professional exposure to these systems, but in personal, extensive harm caused by serious administrative failures within the CAF.
CAF Advocacy Project exists because too many members are expected to defend their careers with minimal, inconsistent, or poorly explained guidance—often delivered by individuals with limited training in systems that carry significant consequences. The result is confusion, isolation, and preventable damage.
This platform provides general information, plain-language explanations of CAF processes, and experience-based guidance to help members understand what is happening to them, what processes apply, and what issues to be aware of when navigating administrative action or grievances. CAF Advocacy Project is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal representation in any way.
This is a non-judgmental and anonymous space. No identifying information is required. The focus is on clarity, documentation, and helping members push back against unfair or poorly administered processes the right way—through knowledge, preparation, and lived experience.
If you are dealing with an administrative process and have questions about what you are experiencing, I am willing to provide, to the best of my experienced ability, individualized general information about applicable processes, rights, and issues to be aware of—not legal advice, and not legal representation.
Having personally experienced significant mental health impacts as a result of CAF administrative failures, I also offer peer support—a non-judgmental ear from someone who understands, without providing counselling or clinical mental health care.
Any information shared through this platform is grounded in applicable policy, regulation, or law. Where information is provided, relevant references will be identified. This project does not exist to offer uninformed opinions or speculation.
No CAF member should have to navigate administrative systems alone, with individuals that do not know what they are doing or in the dark.