National Defence committee  As I believe you just said, that is an email from the Privy Council Office or within the Privy Council Office. You've had members from the Privy Council Office, including the two top officials involved there, come before your committee and confirm to you that they did not know wh

National Defence committee  Yes?

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, I can tell you what I know, or what I knew, as I have tried to do over the course of this committee. What I knew at the time is obviously different from what I know now, and it's different now because of public reporting. At the time, I knew that there was a compla

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, as I've said—my apologies if I didn't repeat myself the same way as I did every other time over the course of the committee—I didn't know the nature of the complaint. I did not know the substance of the complaint. I did not know the details of the complaint. I didn't

National Defence committee  Those are big questions, but I will try to be very brief, knowing the time. For me, it means, in all different forms, us trying to achieve gender equality, whether it be in the economic, social or security fields. It is why we've had meetings across all of those different areas

National Defence committee  Let me try to work backwards through that, Madam Chair. As I said in my opening statement, and as the member and I have discussed over the course of this committee hearing, this is a systemic problem or challenge for us all that dates back, unfortunately, to long before our gove

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, as I think I already established with some of the other members of the committee, a lot actually was done in the last five years. There were a lot of steps taken right across the government, not only as it relates to the Canadian Armed Forces but specifically also as

National Defence committee  I'm going to work forward through your comments there. I just want to clarify that at the beginning of your comments, you said it has been established that it was a sexual allegation. I just want to be clear that what the complaint was and everything about it was established wh

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  I have a couple of quick thoughts, realizing the time. I would start by saying that his has been an extraordinarily difficult week in an extraordinarily difficult time already. I appreciate what Parliament decided in their vote on Wednesday. I was pleased to come here. What has

National Defence committee  Well, even more than that, Madam Chair, knowing nothing is.... I have been in situations when I have received anonymous complaints, as the previous government did. They received an anonymous complaint. They had a rumour. They had things they could follow up on and figure out how

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, I would just clarify two things on this point. One is the testimony that has already been referenced by all of the same people who were involved, and more than the number of people who were involved, in the emails that I believe the member is referring to. None of th

National Defence committee  —a complaint of a sexual nature, they themselves didn't know the nature of the complaint. They have all come here and come on the record and said that.

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, I know I am repeating myself here, but the member is alleging something that is not the case. What everyone has said who has come before committee, and what I can—

National Defence committee  I will only speak about myself—