Global News published this video item, entitled “Canadian military’s 2nd-in-command resigns after Gen. Jonathan Vance golfing controversy” – below is their description.
Lt. Gen. Mike Rouleau has resigned as second-in-command of the Canadian Armed Forces following condemnation over his decision to go golfing with Gen. Jonathan Vance and Vice-Adm. C.A. Baines, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Vance is currently being investigated for sexual misconduct— with Roleau having been in command of the military police in charge of the investigation.
Mercedes Stephenson reports on the reaction as Canada’s military loses its two top commanders.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
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