Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I just want to state on the record, given the tone in the minister's opening statement and some of the remarks he has made, that certainly in the case of opposition members here, we're all trying to get to a Canadian military where women can serve equally because an end comes to the tolerance of sexual misconduct. I just think we all need to be very clear about that. I have spoken to too many women, as I know others on the committee have, whose careers were cut short by the tolerance of sexual misconduct in the military.
I know that this is the end of today's session, and I want to ask the minister about something in retrospect. What happened here is that not just one accusation of sexual misconduct against General Vance but several have been dealt with or are being dealt with. We appear to have now a situation where, from 2018, we have had someone who served as chief of the defence staff, who was ostensibly in charge of all the programs to root out sexual misconduct, and who in fact had been multiple times involved in allegations of sexual misconduct.
In retrospect, does the minister have any suggestions of what might have happened to avoid this period, which has now caused a crisis of confidence in the senior leadership's commitment to root out sexual misconduct?