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Fears of a Chinese attack on Taiwan are growing; Russian troops have massed on Ukraineâs border; both countries are âpre-positioningâ for any future conflict by launching cyber-attacks, according to the most recent official risk assessment. Yet, as these threats evolve, Canadaâs military leadership is said to be petrified, in every sense of the word, by the sexual misconduct crisis that has engulfed the armed forces.
âItâs turmoil. Every senior uniform person has got their head down and is just hoping for the best,â said one person with intimate knowledge of the Department of National Defence. âItâs as bad, if not worse, than the Somali affair (the 1993 military scandal) and the decade of darkness that derailed the Defence department after it. Itâs a big worry from a national security point of view.â
OTTAWA The federal defence minister says what was known in March 2018 about the nature of the complaint levied against former defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance “does not matter.” In an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday, Harjit Sajjan says what’s of more value is the steps that were taken after the report was brought to light by former military ombudsman Gary Walbourne. “It does not matter what the complaint actually was, a complaint was brought forward about the chief of defence staff, and at that time what we needed to do was take immediate action so that could be looked into properly, and that was done,” said Sajjan.