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Senior members of the Liberal government have become ensnared by allegations that they hushed up or ignored 2018 revelations that Canada’s top soldier was facing a sexual misconduct accusation.
It’s just the latest development in a scandal centring on Gen. Jonathan Vance, the former chief of defence staff who once vowed to root out sexual misconduct in the Canadian military but was allegedly simultaneously carrying on a clandestine affair with a subordinate.
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“I’ll keep saying I’m a feminist.”
Those are Justin Trudeau’s words. He said them at a United Nations summit focusing on women in March 2016.
He said he’d keep calling himself a feminist, in fact, “until it is met with a shrug.”
On Monday of this week, no one in the real world was shrugging. They were shaking their heads in disbelief.
On Monday, the Liberals aided and abetted by the separatists, no less voted to shut down a defence committee investigation of sexual misconduct at the highest level of the Canadian Armed Forces.
The Liberal and Bloc Quebecois MPs voted together and they voted for a Liberal motion that effectively kills the parliamentary committee’s work.The committee had heard shocking testimony about how the Trudeau government had handled allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against women in the Canadian military.