Madam Speaker, unfortunately the parliamentary secretary missed the point, and unfortunately the minister chose not to respond himself, because this is who I was asking the question.
What lessons has he personally learned from his failure? He accepted responsibility for failure to investigate or for these allegations to be properly investigated, and now we are at the point where Canadian Armed Forces members, these survivors the parliamentary secretary alluded to, want to know that senior leadership can be held to account. I do not need talking points. I spent 25 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. I have people reaching out to me and explaining. Here is what I am hearing from the ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces: They do not trust the senior leadership and they do not trust the government to actually hold the people to account. The skepticism that is growing in the ranks is what is going to do long-lasting damage that we need to fix.
How is the government going to fix these allegations against our most senior leaders?