Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I just want to respond to a comment from the parliamentary secretary about the question of whether sexual misconduct by General Vance was widely known and where that comes from.
I refer once again to a Global News Mercedes Stephenson interview with Major Brennan on February 21, 2021, in which Mercedes Stephenson asked Major Brennan whether senior military leaders knew about Vance's inappropriate relationship with her as a subordinate. Major Kellie Brennan responded, and I quote, “I know because I've told them.”
It's very clear that many people believed that the sexual misconduct allegations were widely known.
Now, as we're running short of time today, I just want to return to what I think is some very important testimony from Mr. Wernick, in which he talked about other things that could have been done. He talked about the fact that the minister could have taken the envelope and passed it on to PCO. He talked about the ombudsman having an option to further redact information and pass it on to PCO.
He maybe got cut off a bit short. Are there other things he would have suggested that PCO could have done at this time?