Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, General, for joining us with your colleagues today.
I listened carefully to what you said, sir, about your deep concern and your being disturbed by the allegations. I guess, as a Canadian, I'm more than concerned and disturbed. I'm quite angry to find from these reports that the military hasn't responded appropriately when individuals were victims of, as you quite rightly referred to it, criminal acts, and find themselves revictimized by the military.
I'm looking at Maclean's magazine here, and of course L'actualité did the research on this. Inside this magazine they also show a similar account, back in 1998, using similar phrases. “Our military's disgrace” is the headline here, and before it was “Rape in the military”, “Speaking out”, etc.
I have a real sense of déjà vu, sir, given that 16 years have passed since these allegations were made. At that time the response of the military was that we can handle this internally; we can fix this problem, and we will. Why hasn't that happened?