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Author of the article: Brian Lilley Publishing date: May 01, 2021  •  7 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Then Chief of Defence Staff Jonathan Vance and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listen to Canada's Governor General Julie Payette delivering the throne speech in the Senate chamber in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Sept. 23, 2020. Photo by Adrian Wyld /Pool via REUTERS Article content There can be no doubt that Justin Trudeau’s office knew someone was making sexual harassment allegations against former Chief of Defence Staff Jonathan Vance in 2018. The question that remains is ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference in Ottawa on Friday, April 23, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau calls for culture of tolerance around sexual misconduct in military to end. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA – A former senior adviser to the prime minister gave testimony before a House of Commons committee Friday suggesting Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford knew about a misconduct allegation against Canada’s then-top military commander three years ago. Elder Marques, who worked in the Prime Minister’s Office, says Telford or her ass...

"I think very quickly everyone had the same information, which was very limited, and we quickly moved to asking the Privy Council to now take carriage of that matter and do what it could with that information to have an investigation ultimately take place," Marques told a House of Commonsdefence committee hearing Friday. The testimony appears to contradict the sequence of events laid out by Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan earlier this month and raises new questions about what Trudeau knew about the allegations before a Global News report came out in February. Global reported allegations that V...

  TORONTO -- A former adviser to the prime minister told MPs on Friday that Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff knew about a misconduct allegation against former defence chief General Jonathan Vance three years ago. Elder Marques, who previously worked in the Prime Minister's Office, testified at the House of Commons defence committee, which is one of two parliamentary studies looking at what needs to be done to change the culture within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to prevent sexual misconduct. Marques told the committee that Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, or her assistant co...

  OTTAWA -- The former Clerk of the Privy Council says the government “lost sight” of an allegation against former defence chief General Jonathan Vance brought to light in March, 2018. Michael Wernick told the House of Commons’ defence committee Tuesday that because former military ombudsman Gary Walbourne – who raised the report with Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan at the time – couldn’t provide more information about the allegation, they were at an “impasse” but in retrospect could have done more to pursue it. “Our judgement in mid-March was that we reached an impasse,...