Global News published this video item, entitled “Feds offers vague promises over military misconduct as ombudsman slams them for inaction” – below is their description.
Canada’s military ombudsman Gregory Lick offered a scathing assessment of Ottawa’s handling of sexual misconduct in the military.
Lick said internal mechanisms meant to support victims of misconduct have gone from “broken” to “collapsed”.
He also demanded that his office gets more independence from the government because “vested political interests” complicate his ability to do his work.
As Mercedes Stephenson reports, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is still making promises to bring change without any specifics, as critics say they are still not good enough.
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.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since April 2013.