Defense Watch Watch: Monday at the National Defense HQ
Current head of CF lied about knowing about another senior officer's sexcrime In other words, it is Monday. But when you dig into the details a bit: Despite allegedly knowing of the allegation, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre confirmed Trevor Cadieu as the new army commander following the approval of Cadieu’s promotion to lieutenant general on Aug. 8. In a statement to this newspaper, the Department of National Defence said Eyre only found out about the allegations against Cadieu when he was informed by military police on Sept. 5. But the alleged victim, as well as an email from Cadieu himself, tell a different story. In an email sent to his alleged victim on July 11, Cadieu writes that Eyre had been informed by other officers about the allegations. “The CDS can’t ignore what he’s been told,” Cadieu wrote to the woman, a former Canadian Forces member. “Naturally, as painful as it is to write this, the CDS needs to makes (sic) decisions about my ...