Madam Chair, thank you very much.
Mr. Walbourne, thank you for being with us.
I'd like to take you to some committee appearances back in 2014 and 2015 and to what you said on the record. In an appearance you made to this same committee in 2014, you were asked this by then member of Parliament Joyce Murray:
If not the ombudsman's office, then where in the armed forces do people have a safe place to go with these kinds of concerns when it seems like, even in civil society, nine out of ten people don't step forward when there's been a sexual assault. It surprises me that it's really not your jurisdiction. Whose jurisdiction is it?
This was your response at the time: “it would be turned over to the military police or in some cases civilian authorities.”
Again, Mr. Walbourne, why did you go to the minister with these issues when you were on the record as stating that the correct organization to investigate these types of claims was the military police?