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It's not unheard of for a member convicted of a serious offence to serve the first two years at Club Ed and then get punted to civilian prison for the rest of their sentence.
Maybe years ago but as per the notes to QR&O 104.04, there is now a different approach.
104.04 – IMPRISONMENT FOR SHORTER TERM
Section 140 of the National Defence Act provides:
“140. Every person who, on conviction of a service offence, is liable to imprisonment for life, other than as a minimum punishment, or for a term of years or other term may be sentenced to imprisonment for a shorter term.”
(C) [1 September 1999]
NOTES
(A) Although specialized treatment and counselling programmes to deal with drug and alcohol dependencies and similar health problems will be made available to a person serving a term of imprisonment, a member serving a sentence that includes imprisonment will in most cases be considered unfit for further military service. As a result, service prisoners and service convicts will ordinarily not be subjected to the same regime of training that service detainees undergo. In certain cases, exceptions may be made for service prisoners serving a short term of imprisonment provided that it has either been decided to retain the member or no decision to release the member has been made but the circumstances suggest that retention in the Canadian Forces is likely. A punishment of imprisonment will be considered to be of short duration where the term does not exceed 90 days.
(B) Service prisoners and service convicts typically require an intensive programme of retraining and rehabilitation to equip them for their return to society following completion of the term of incarceration. Civilian prisons and penitentiaries are uniquely equipped to provide such opportunities to inmates. Therefore, to facilitate their reintegration into society, service prisoners and service convicts who are to be released from the Canadian Forces will typically be transferred to a civilian prison or penitentiary as soon as practical within the first 30 days following the date of sentencing. The member will ordinarily be released from the Canadian Forces before such a transfer is effected.
(C) Refer to section 204 of the National Defence Act (see article 104.18 – Computation of Term of Incarceration) for the computation of the term of a punishment of imprisonment.
(C) [23 April 2001; 1 September 2018 – Note (C)]
It is a moot point anyway, as the numpty sentenced for the incident at Rideau Hall is neither a service prisoner or service convict (s. prisoner is 2 years less a day, s. convict is 2 years or more); i.e. he was not sentenced by a service tribunal. He doesn't pass GO, doesn't collect $200, and goes directly to a civilian jail.