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MPs shouldn’t politicize Vance investigation, should look at bigger institutional issues in military culture
February 22, 2021
Canada's then-chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance, pictured April 30, 2020, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Canada’s former chief of defence staff, Gen. Jonathan Vance, 57, will be the subject of a three-session study of the House Defence Committee into allegations of his sexual misconduct, after Global News first reported on Feb. 2 that he had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate. The bombshell story came out two weeks after Gen. Vance stepped down from the post and was officially succeeded by Adm. Art McDonald on Jan. 14. Another allegation involves a sexual suggestion he made to a younger female subordinate in a 2012 email. Gen. Vance, Canada’s longest serving chief of defence staff who served from July 17, 2015, to Jan. 14, 2021, denies that he acted inappropriately.
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