No one is suggesting that the minister should have investigated; what we are saying, and I'm certainly saying it very clearly, is that he did need to find out whether there was a sexual misconduct complaint against the chief of the defence staff, who was in charge of rooting out sexual misconduct in the Canadian military. This is not just, and I don't want to demean any other complaints, a run-of-the-mill complaint about sexual misconduct; this is against the person who is in charge of rooting it out in the Canadian military, which is what makes this different from all the others.
On April 30th, 2021. See this statement in context.