Call in the RCMP to dig military police out of no-win scenario

If the CFNIS investigates and uncovers no grounds for criminal charges against Vance, the public will presume the investigation was thwarted from within.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is pictured at September 2019 Ottawa press conference. The RCMP should be called in to conduct an independent investigation into the various misconduct allegations against military leaders, writes Scott Taylor, to pre-empt any public perception that the process is tainted. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

June 23, 2021

OTTAWA—It was on Sunday, Feb. 2 that the current military sexual misconduct scandal first emerged. Global News reporter Mercedes Stephenson broke the story that the recently stepped-down chief of defence staff, General Jonathan Vance, was accused of two counts of sexual misconduct. What made the...

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