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Canada to end military involvement in sexual misconduct probes

Canadian Minister of National Defence Anita Anand, shown here in October 2021, offered no timeline for implementing reforms meant to address sexual misconduct in the Canadian military on Tuesday [File: Blair Gable/Reuters]

Canada has announced that it will remove the military from investigating and prosecuting alleged sexual offences within the armed forces, in a step to promote transparency and respond to problems identified in a report earlier this year.

Canada’s defence minister Anita Anand presented a report before Canada’s parliament on Tuesday, promising to make changes to the way sexual misconduct allegations are handled and to act on recommendations made by a former Supreme Court justice in May.

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