However, that information was clearly offered to the Minister of National Defence, so it seems peculiar that you didn't take the shortest route to finding out by asking him to have a look at the evidence he was being offered.
Just a minute ago, you also said that, at the time, you knew it was possible that the allegation was of sexual misconduct. Given that Madame Deschamps' report existed and said that sexual misconduct was basically rampant in the Canadian military, didn't this ring an alarm bell with you? I ask because this was a complaint against the person in charge of rooting out sexual misconduct in the military. It would seem to me that you would want to make sure that this was not what the complaint was about. Quite apart from the complainant, this is about the policies and procedures of the Canadian Armed Forces for dealing with sexual misconduct.
Did you not think it would be important to figure out at that time whether or not this was a sexual misconduct complaint?