{"id":6752,"date":"2026-07-07T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legionmagazine.com\/fr\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:33:04","slug":"un-controle-defaillant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legionmagazine.com\/fr\/2026\/07\/un-controle-defaillant\/","title":{"rendered":"Un contr\u00f4le d\u00e9faillant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Lorsque l\u2019arm\u00e9e<\/b> commet des erreurs, cela peut \u00eatre catastrophique. Il faut donc davantage d\u2019autorit\u00e9s de <span class=\"s1\">contr\u00f4le, et non moins\u00a0\u00bb, a confi\u00e9 <\/span>M.\u00a0Stephen\u00a0Saideman, profes<span class=\"s1\">seur de relations internationales \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Carleton d\u2019Ottawa, \u00e0 <i>La Presse canadienne<\/i> fin 2025. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">M.\u00a0Saideman, avec ses coll\u00e8gues universitaires David P. Auerswald et Philippe\u00a0Lagass\u00e9, signe le nouvel ouvrage <i>Overseen or Overlooked<\/i>? <i>Legislators, Armed Forces, and Democratic Accountability<\/i> (Surveill\u00e9s ou\u00a0n\u00e9glig\u00e9s? Les l\u00e9gislateurs, les\u00a0forces arm\u00e9es et la respon<span class=\"s1\">sabilit\u00e9 d\u00e9mocratique, NDT), qui d\u00e9montre que le Canada assure un contr\u00f4le civil relativement limit\u00e9 sur ses forces arm\u00e9es.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">En effet, au cours de la d\u00e9cennie de l\u2019\u00e9tude men\u00e9e par ces trois sp\u00e9cialistes de la d\u00e9fense, qui constitue la base de leur ouvrage, un membre du Comit\u00e9 perma<\/span>nent de la d\u00e9fense nationale leur a avou\u00e9 qu\u2019il ne connaissait pas les r\u00e8gles d\u2019engagement de la mission canadienne en Afghanistan de 2007, car il ne d\u00e9tenait pas l\u2019habilitation de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 n\u00e9cessaire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Il y a l\u00e0 un probl\u00e8me, d\u2019autant plus que le gouvernement actuel pr\u00e9voit augmenter les fonds de\u00a0la d\u00e9fense \u00e0 150\u00a0milliards de dollars d\u2019ici 2035 et qu\u2019un r\u00e9cent scandale d\u2019inconduite sexuelle a\u00a0entrain\u00e9 la mise \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart ou \u00e0 la <\/span>retraite forc\u00e9e de plus de douze hauts responsables militaires, et que certains ont fait l\u2019objet d\u2019une enqu\u00eate. Il est clair que le Canada n\u2019a pas suffisamment surveill\u00e9 ses forces arm\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">L\u2019ouvrage compare les m\u00e9canismes de contr\u00f4le militaire en vigueur dans plusieurs autres pays occidentaux, de\u00a0la Belgique, la Finlande et l\u2019Allemagne au Japon, \u00e0 la\u00a0Su\u00e8de et aux \u00c9tats-Unis. Il\u00a0\u00e9value notamment l\u2019engagement du Canada par rapport aux d\u00e9mocraties dot\u00e9es de syst\u00e8mes parlementaires similaires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00ab\u00a0Nous avons d\u00e9couvert que les Britanniques et les Australiens prennent ce genre de choses beaucoup plus au s\u00e9rieux que nous\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 M.\u00a0Saideman \u00e0 la <i>Presse canadienn<\/i>e. En revanche, le Canada se situe \u00e0 \u00e9galit\u00e9 avec le Japon, le Chili et le Br\u00e9sil, soit des \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9mocraties dont les parlements jouent le r\u00f4le le\u00a0plus marginal dans les relations civilo-militaires\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Cela doit changer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Les \u00c9tats-Unis<\/b> et l\u2019Allemagne ont les plus hauts niveaux de\u00a0surveillance civile de leurs forces arm\u00e9es, indique le livre. Le comit\u00e9 allemand de la d\u00e9fense a le pouvoir d\u2019exa-miner les documents classifi\u00e9s, d\u2019approuver les d\u00e9ploiements et d\u2019ouvrir des enqu\u00eates. Le Parlement a les m\u00eames pouvoirs, mais il ne les utilise que rarement. Et m\u00eame lorsqu\u2019il le fait, la\u00a0politique s\u2019y immisce souvent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Un exemple r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur\u00a0: pendant la guerre en Afghanistan, le Parlement minoritaire a recueilli des documents classifi\u00e9s sur le\u00a0traitement des d\u00e9tenus. \u00ab\u00a0Au\u00a0final, le d\u00e9bat a port\u00e9 sur la (divulgation desdits documents) plut\u00f4t que de savoir si la guerre \u00e9tait men\u00e9e correctement et si les militaires se comportaient bien en Afghanistan\u00a0\u00bb, a not\u00e9 M.\u00a0Saideman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Ses coll\u00e8gues et lui soulignent \u00e9galement que de nombreux d\u00e9put\u00e9s \u00e9vitent d\u2019obtenir une habilitation de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, estimant que celle-ci va \u00e0 l\u2019encontre de leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats politiques imm\u00e9diats. \u00c0 cet \u00e9gard, le chef conservateur Pierre\u00a0Poilievre a refus\u00e9 le privil\u00e8ge parlementaire, indiquant par l\u2019interm\u00e9diaire d\u2019un porte-parole, que cela le rendrait \u00ab\u00a0incapable d\u2019utiliser efficacement toute information pertinente qu\u2019il recevrait\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Cette position semble aller \u00e0 l\u2019encontre du bon sens. Prenons l\u2019exemple de la Belgique. En 2016, la Russie a accus\u00e9 l\u2019arm\u00e9e de l\u2019air belge d\u2019avoir tu\u00e9 des civils en Syrie. Le comit\u00e9 des op\u00e9rations militaires de Belgique a\u00a0examin\u00e9 les preuves fournies par l\u2019arm\u00e9e et a d\u00e9termin\u00e9 que\u00a0l\u2019all\u00e9gation \u00e9tait sans fondement. Aucune lutte politique interne et aucune enqu\u00eate n\u2019ont \u00e9t\u00e9 n\u00e9cessaires, car les membres du comit\u00e9 peuvent consulter des informations classifi\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Ind\u00e9pendamment des consid\u00e9rations partisanes, il\u00a0est inqui\u00e9tant de constater que les l\u00e9gislateurs canadiens sont, comme l\u2019\u00e9crivent les auteurs de l\u2019ouvrage, \u00ab\u00a0distraits, d\u00e9sint\u00e9ress\u00e9s ou d\u00e9pourvus de r\u00e9els moyens\u00a0\u00bb lorsqu\u2019il s\u2019agit de\u00a0superviser les forces arm\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00ab\u00a0La guerre! C\u2019est une chose trop grave pour la confier \u00e0 des militaires\u00a0\u00bb, dixit Georges\u00a0Clemenceau, l\u2019homme d\u2019\u00c9tat fran\u00e7ais de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale qui fut l\u2019un des principaux architectes du Trait\u00e9 de Versailles. Plus d\u2019un si\u00e8cle plus tard, les\u00a0Canadiens feraient bien de\u00a0m\u00e9diter sur ces paroles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorsque l\u2019arm\u00e9e commet des erreurs, cela peut \u00eatre catastrophique. Il faut donc davantage d\u2019autorit\u00e9s de contr\u00f4le, et non moins\u00a0\u00bb, a confi\u00e9 M.\u00a0Stephen\u00a0Saideman, professeur de relations internationales \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Carleton d\u2019Ottawa, \u00e0 La Presse canadienne fin 2025. M.\u00a0Saideman, avec ses coll\u00e8gues universitaires David P. Auerswald et Philippe\u00a0Lagass\u00e9, signe le nouvel ouvrage Overseen or Overlooked? 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