Friday, March 29, 2024
ADVT 
National

Telford offers to testify on Vance allegations

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 06 May, 2021 10:13 PM
  • Telford offers to testify on Vance allegations

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff has offered to testify at a House of Commons committee studying allegations of sexual misconduct against Canada's former top military commander.

The Canadian Press has learned that Katie Telford has written members of the defence committee offering to testify at their meeting Friday.

Opposition parties have been demanding she appear to explain an apparent discrepancy between Trudeau's assertion that his office did not know a complaint against then-defence chief general Jonathan Vance involved sexual misconduct and other testimony and emails suggesting that it did know.

The Conservatives earlier this week moved a motion calling for Telford to be fired for not telling Trudeau that the complaint was sexual in nature. That motion was defeated.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has said he was informed about the complaint in 2018 by then-military ombudsman Gary Walbourne and immediately referred the matter to the Privy Council Office.

The Privy Council Office has said it could not pursue an investigation because it did not receive the information it needed to move forward.

MORE National ARTICLES

Cougar believed to be behind B.C. attack killed

Cougar believed to be behind B.C. attack killed
The service's predator attack team located two healthy, juvenile male cougars near where the attack took place on a property west of Agassiz, about 110 kilometres east of Vancouver.

Cougar believed to be behind B.C. attack killed

G7 supports 'common platform' on vaccine status

G7 supports 'common platform' on vaccine status
At the centre of this effort must be a co-ordinated approach for testing and a common platform for recognizing the vaccinated status of travellers," Alghabra said  

G7 supports 'common platform' on vaccine status

Vaccines safe for kids 12 and up: B.C. top doctor

Vaccines safe for kids 12 and up: B.C. top doctor
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says they're looking at ways to immunize young people with their first dose by the end of June now that Health Canada has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those 12 and older.

Vaccines safe for kids 12 and up: B.C. top doctor

572 COVID cases for Wednesday

572 COVID cases for Wednesday
There have been no new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 1,594 deaths in British Columbia. Our condolences are with the family, friends and caregivers of the people who have died as a result of COVID-19.

572 COVID cases for Wednesday

Man Arrested and Charged in Series of Violent Assaults: Metro Vancouver Transit Police

Man Arrested and Charged in Series of Violent Assaults: Metro Vancouver Transit Police
Arrested and charged with two counts of Assault and one count of Assault by Choking is 44-year-old Benjamin James McBeath of no fixed address, who is well known to police.

Man Arrested and Charged in Series of Violent Assaults: Metro Vancouver Transit Police

B.C. recognizes wrongs against Japanese Canadians

B.C. recognizes wrongs against Japanese Canadians
A statement from the Ministry of Attorney General says the fund will be used to develop and deliver health and wellness programs to Japanese Canadian internment survivors.

B.C. recognizes wrongs against Japanese Canadians