Thank you.
I want to also point out that while the Prime Minister in question period today said that this was a letter, it in fact does have the weight of an order. It was implied by the Prime Minister and the minister that this was two months ago and therefore that it was not germane.
I will bring to the minister's attention the April 30 action plan addressing the Deschamps report. It says on page 1 that the strategic response team on sexual misconduct—that's the team that would be an internal response—was stood up under the authority of the Chief of the Defence Staff's initiating directive of February 25. In fact, this report that was launched two weeks ago was based on the initiating directive, contrary to what both the minister and the Prime Minister said.
I would ask the minister, has he commanded or ordered the Chief of the Defence Staff to rescind this directive that is the basis of the minister's, the government's, response to the Deschamps report on sexual harassment in the Canadian Armed Forces?