Former PCO clerk says his office had ‘responsibility’ to probe allegations against Vance

Gregory Lick, military ombudsman, says the larger issue underscored by the allegations is that complainants lack confidence that any complaints they bring forward will be taken seriously.

Former PCO clerk Michael Wernick says his office was unable to press forward with the probe into the allegations against now-retired chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance because they did not have enough information. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

April 6, 2021

Former clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick says his office had a “responsibility” to look into the allegations of sexual misconduct against the chief of defence staff at the time, but its efforts “came to halt” in mid-March of 2018 when it was unable to...

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