As I said in my statement, when Prime Minister Harper met with General Vance in March, he did raise the issue that was known at the time pertaining to the general's time at NATO, and I indicated in my statement what the general's response was to that.
After the appointment was announced in April, as I indicated, some months later in early July additional information was shared with us by our officials in the case of the anonymous email that was received. In that instance, the national security adviser briefed us that the NIS had again reviewed the matter, had found no new information and that the investigation at that time had been closed.
With respect to the rumour that was passed to us, that was immediately conveyed to the national security adviser and Privy Council, with a direct request to ascertain if there were additional facts or if additional reviews or investigations needed to be undertaken so that we could then delay the change of command ceremony to ensure we had any additional facts.
I have reported in my statement that the national security adviser came back advising us that in fact there was no record of a complaint, nothing in DND's files regarding this rumour, and that when he spoke with General Vance directly about it, the general denied it, said he had been in a public relationship with the individual and had not improperly furthered her career.