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 Vance had a relationship with a subordinate that began in 2001 and continued after he accepted the top job in 2015. Vance, who stepped down in January, has not responded to requests for comment from The Canadian Press but Global has reported he denies any wrongdoing.
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