Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the interventions from my colleagues.
If we want to inspire confidence in women serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, we need to make sure we fix this process. When we have a failure at the highest levels of government in ensuring that their concerns and allegations are dealt with in a timely manner, we need to get down to the bottom of what happened here.
Again, the committee has the power to demand the production of papers. We're asking the law clerk to redact anything in there that would hurt those investigations or the names and incidents as they have come about. We also know that most of this has already been reported in the media, so there aren't a whole lot of secrets. What is a secret is how this was handled within the minister's office, within the PCO and within the PMO, so that's why we need these documents to get down to the bottom of it.
I can see why Liberal members are scared to have that coming forward, because they've been participating in a bit of a cover-up of their own to protect the minister, but we need to find out what was actually said, what was written, what was done and what wasn't done when we're trying to deal with these very serious allegations of misconduct, by General Vance in particular. We're now also going to want to look at everything on the McDonald file as well, but this is specific to General Vance and what we have seen already released publicly. We as committee members should be able to get more information than the media.
Again, I encourage my colleagues that we have an opportunity here to do some very serious work and have a great outcome that will improve the processes, as well as inspiring women to sign up for the Canadian Armed Forces with a lot more confidence that they will be in a safe and healthy work environment.