National Defence committee  Yes. I consider that a fair statement.

National Defence committee  That's correct.

National Defence committee  My advice would be to do something. Again, as I said, there are many levers inside the NDA that the minister has available. I don't have visibility on all of them. There are actions that could have been taken. We've seen some recent action taken. There are many things I think co

National Defence committee  Retired Colonel Drapeau was in front of the committee a little while back, and I think he clearly outlined what some of those levers were. He could have called an own motion investigation. He has that authority. There were other things he could do. What kind of chafes me a littl

National Defence committee  Well, let's talk about visibility. Let's just say that the minister took it and said, “I'm going to call my own motion investigation.” He could have called that victim and had a conversation, and maybe he'd have found other things in the environment. You're asking me to suppose

National Defence committee  That's correct.

National Defence committee  No, I never got that detail from Ms. Sherman, other than that she knew about the allegation. To the other point you were making, I would go the other way, Mr. Bezan. I would say thanks to the Liberal members for finally reading the mandate of the ombudsman's office.

National Defence committee  Well, that's a distinct possibility. I would suspect it would have been in the back of his mind.

National Defence committee  Again, it would depend on the type of allegation that was made: informal, formal, systemic or whatever it was. I suspect there would have to be structures created just above as a reporting-in for that entity, but I would assume that's where it would go, either to committee or to

National Defence committee  As I said earlier, sexual harassment, in the same vein, is handled in a different way. There are resources you bring to get the person the right counselling and to get them into a good place and to deal with what's happening in that particular environment, either through the chai

National Defence committee  I'm doing okay. I have a good support group. I have good family and good friends. I have a large group of people in the veterans community, and those who are serving, who have reached out to me and offered me support, and I'm very appreciative of that. So, I'm okay.

National Defence committee  Well, here comes the optimist in the room again. The Canadian Armed Forces is an entity unlike any other on the planet. There's a group of good people who do good work every day. They get up, they come in, they do their jobs and they go above and beyond for Canadians every singl

National Defence committee  I think it's quite apparent that it could have been. If this is what we've done in the current situation, I don't see much different.

National Defence committee  I'm not going to talk any more about that allegation.

National Defence committee  That sounds like a logical response to me.