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Lee Berthiaume Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for International Migration Louise Arbour speaks during a press briefing after the closing session of UN Migration Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mosa'ab Elshamy April 29, 2021 - 8:17 AM OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is tapping former Supreme Court justice and United Nations high commissioner for human rights Louise Arbour to lead what it is billing as an independent review of the military’s handling of sexual assault, harass...

O'Toole defends Conservatives' handling of Vance allegation in 2015 by Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press Posted Apr 29, 2021 4:57 pm EDT Last Updated Apr 29, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says he acted appropriately after hearing a “rumour” about Jonathan Vance months before the general took over as Canada’s top military commander in July 2015. The comments follow new questions about the decision by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government to move ahead with Vance’s appointment in spite of two separate allegations that the senior officer had enga...

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vigorously defended his top aide on Tuesday, saying that while his office knew there was a complaint against then-defence chief general Jonathan Vance three . . .

Responding to a question during one of his regular COVID-19 briefings, Trudeau described his chief of staff as "an extraordinarily strong leader" who has been instrumental in pushing the federal government to become more feminist. "It's because of Katie that I have sat down with multiple women leaders within the Armed Forces and elsewhere to have conversations about this over the years to look at what more can and should be done," the prime minister said. He went on to say that while "my office knew there was a complaint against (now retired) general Vance, nobody knew that it was a ‘Me Too...