I have been very clear with the committee that, in March of 2015, there was one issue raised. That was the issue pertaining to the general's deployment at NATO and how he met his then fiancée. That was the issue raised. That was in March of 2015. The appointment was announced in April of 2015.
As I mentioned in my opening statement, in July of 2015, prior to the change of command ceremony, two additional pieces of information came forward.
One was an anonymous email sent to someone at the Department of National Defence pertaining to the general's time at NATO. We were briefed by our officials that the email was investigated by the national investigation service. They found nothing new that wasn't known in March, and that matter was closed.
With respect to the rumour, as I indicated earlier, the rumour I received was relayed to the national security adviser who investigated it at our request and reported back some time later that there was no record of a complaint, no complainant, no investigation that was either open or closed, and that he had directly spoken to General Vance about the matter, who denied improperly acting to further someone's career and also indicated he had been in a public relationship with the individual during his time at Gagetown.