Keeping it under wraps always seems to go wrong

The fact that the news of Major-General Peter Dawe's appointment generated enough internal reaction that it was subsequently leaked to the Ottawa Citizen, means that many of the rank and file do in fact 'get it.'

The sign offs by General Wayne Eyre, acting chief of the defence staff, left, and Lieutenant-General Frances Allen, vice-chief of the defence staff to quietly return Major-General Peter Dawe, right, to a new role involving responses to the various reviews looking into sexual misconduct in the Armed Forces was yet another entirely avoidable black eye for the CAF senior command, writes Scott Taylor. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and photograph courtesy of NATO

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

October 11, 2021

OTTAWA—Last week, Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese broke the story that Major-General Peter Dawe had been quietly assigned a new post and brought back to work. Dawe had earlier fallen from grace when it was revealed earlier this year that in 2017, he had written a positive character...

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