National Defence committee  Good day, Madam Chair and committee members. Thank you for your time to hear my testimony today. I'd like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank all of my fellow current and former Canadian Armed Forces service members for their service to this great nation. My name

National Defence committee  That's a very good question. What I understand your question to be is how I identified the veracity of the person's claim that they were the chief of staff of the minister. It was a 613 number identified, 613 being an Ottawa number. I'd have to look back at my call logs. I believ

National Defence committee  That's correct, ma'am.

National Defence committee  Ma'am, that's a difficult question. I think I'm not in a position to share the details at this point about the complainant, the complaint or what occurred, simply because she entrusted me with her information on a confidential basis. I've shared that information with the approp

National Defence committee  Ma'am, as I was not actually there to witness the incident, from what has been relayed to me, there is the potential that, yes, there could be other people who could have witnessed it and reported it. However, again, I don't want to be in a place of conjecture where I'm inferring

National Defence committee  Ma'am, that's a difficult question to answer, again. My personal conviction as an officer of the Canadian Armed Forces is that I will put the service and my service members above my own needs and safety. In that regard, I don't feel as though I've been pressured to not report th

National Defence committee  Yes, ma'am. I can provide.... I have it sort of scripted, so I can keep it succinct for you here. As it was reported to me, there was a Zoom call for career management of naval technical officers. Over a hundred people were on the Zoom call, including a large number of officers

National Defence committee  Yes, ma'am.

National Defence committee  That's a good question, ma'am. I don't have access to GEDS, so I couldn't verify that. The name that she gave me was Amelie. I had asked if it was “Emily” and she said that it was Amelie—spelled with an “A”. I had asked—whether it was legal counsel or somebody else—who could i

National Defence committee  I'd have to refer back to my notes here. I got two calls from the national investigation service. One was from the warrant officer in Ottawa and one was from Esquimalt.

National Defence committee  They had relayed to me that they were going to bring the allegation to the minister. That was their statement to me.

National Defence committee  Yes. I do have a document here that I'm just bringing up. It has a chronology of events, so I don't confuse the matter here. It was on February 4 at 2:47 p.m., Pacific time, that I received the call from the warrant officer at CFNIS in Ottawa. He was inquiring about the complain

National Defence committee  From CFNIS...?

National Defence committee  That would have been the next morning. I got a call from CFNIS in Esquimalt. I think the time was approximately eight o'clock in the morning, at the start of business.

National Defence committee  That's affirmative, ma'am. I'd have to go back to my statement earlier. The warrant officer in Ottawa told me that he was getting in contact with me because of what he received from the SMRC and not from any reporting through the minister's office.