OTTAWA – The obstruction of justice case of former Defense Chief of Staff Jonathan Vance will be tried in May 2023.
Ten days of trial dates were set in a brief hearing in a virtual courtroom this morning, three months after military police indicted the former commander of the Canadian Armed Forces following an investigation for sexual misconduct.
The case is pending in civilian courts after investigators sent her back there, citing what they described as “the limits of the military justice system” to try Canada’s top military officer.
The former defense chief, who retired from the Canadian Armed Forces in April, has previously denied any wrongdoing.
The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service alleged in court documents that Vance repeatedly contacted a woman identified as “KB” in early February and “tried to persuade her to make false statements about their past relationship. To military investigators.
Major Kellie Brennan told a parliamentary committee in April that she and Vance had an inappropriate relationship that began in 2001 and continued after he became Chief of the Defense Staff in 2015.
Brennan also told the committee that she recorded Vance telling her over the phone what to say to the military police, and turned those tapes over to the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on October 29, 2021.
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