As my options to have the topic of child sexual abuse which occurred in the Canadian Armed Forces brought into the public realm quickly expire I thought that I would reach out to the Mother Corp. once again.
March 17th, 2027 is only 556 days away as of this writing.
I filed a complaint with the CBC ombud to look at why the CBC is almost exclusively focusing only on the sexual assault of women and has never looked at the sexual assault of children in the Canadian Armed Forces.
What did the ombud reply with?
Here’s what the ombud replied with:
None of the links provided by the CBC ombud have anything to do with victims of child sexual abuse.
Adult men who joined the Canadian Armed Forces and willingly agreed to allow the military to sort matters out in a military manner are not the same as children that resided on the bases and had absolutely no say in how their abuse was dealt with.
In my matter the Canadian Armed Forces investigated Captain McRae for having committed “Acts of homosexuality” with young boys on the base.
In the aftermath of CFB Namao I had been assigned a military social worker. This social worker was a Captain. My father was a Master Corporal at the time.
When a Captain tells the son of a Master Corporal that he’s a homosexual because he had homosexual sex with a boy twice his age, then that son is a homosexual.
Does the CBC honestly believe that my father was going to tell a captain to go piss up a rope?
Nope. Not going to happen.
If my father didn’t like how the military police and the CFSIU handled the matter and didn’t like how Colonel Munro dismissed most of the charges that had been brought against Captain McRae, who the fuck was he going to complain to? You think that he could just go “downtown” and talk to the civilian police?
The military investigated and prosecuted this matter because McRae was a member of the regular forces and McRae committed sexual abuse against children on a Defence Establishment. It doesn’t matter that the abuse occurred in the PMQs or the rectory of the base chapel. ANY property that DND owns or leases is Defence Establishment Property.
How many people were sexually abused as children on Canadian Forces Bases by members of the Canadian Armed Forces?
Who knows?
How many people who were sexually abused as children on the bases in Canada committed suicide and just had their deaths listed as “suicide – cause unknown”?
Who knows?
All I know is that the media has absolutely no interest in this matter.
It’s like the media on one hand is willing to believe that the Canadian Armed Forces is a hotbed of sexual assaults against women, and that some men get sexually assaulted as well, but that children living on the bases in Canada and who were subjected to the same defective military justice system as everyone else were never at risk.
Over the years we’ve had some wonderful members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Sergeant Alexander Kalichuk – often tried to entice young girls to get into his car. Once was driving around the country roads around Royal Canadian Airforce Station Clinton offering panties to pre-pubescent girls. And even with all of the documented concern about his behaviour around children, the Royal Canadian Airforce never offered him up as a suspect when Lynne Harper, a military dependent from RCAF station Clinton was lured off base, raped, and killed. Instead the RCAF stood by as another military dependent was nearly hung for rape and murder.
Corporal Donald Joseph Sullivan – Joined the Canadian Armed Forces in the late ’70s to avoid being investigated by the Ottawa Police Service for molesting numerous boy scouts. Sullivan was arrested and given a courts martial for committing gross indecency, indecent assault, and buggery with teenage boys on CFB Gagetown. The military did not notify the civilian authorities of Sullivan’s military convictions in 1984. When Sullivan was prosecuted in the late 2010s for his 1970 offences I called the Ottawa Citizen reporter covering this story to ask if this Donald Joseph Sullivan was the same as Corporal Donald Joseph Sullivan. The reporter contacted the Ontario Crown’s office. The Ontario Crown contacted me and asked me where I got this information from. I forwarded the Ontario Crown Sullivan’s 1985 appeal to the Court Martial Appel Court of Canada. The Crown went through the proverbial roof. I eventually spoke to one of the police constables that was investigating Sullivan in the 1970s. He was beyond fucking pissed when I told him that Sullivan had joined the Canadian Armed Forces, obviously passing their background check and criminal record check, and went on to molest more children.
Captain Father Angus McRae – molested over 25 children on Canadian Forces Base Namao and trained at least one of his various altar boys how to engage in anal intercourse with pre-pubescent children. He also used this altar boy, and possibly others, to bring young children over to the base chapel to be molested in the rectory after administering alcohol to these children. Prior to McRae’s military courts martial, McRae admitted to the Archdiocese of Edmonton in an ecclesiastical trial that he had been having sex with boys for many years. Captain McRae had been investigated in 1974 for having committed “acts of homosexuality” on Canadian Forces Base Kingston. Why was McRae still in the Canadian Forces in 1980? How many children did McRae molest on Canadian Forces Base Portage La Prairie? How many children did McRae molest on Canadian Forces Station Holberg, McRae’s posting prior to his posting at CFB Namao in 1978?
These are the charge sheets for Captain McRae. He was charged with “Service Offences” that were comprised solely of Criminal Code of Canada offences. As McRae was charged with Service Offences, the 3-year-time-bar applied, and the summary investigation flaw applied as well. This meant that if anyone came forward as an adult and tried to have McRae charged with abusing them as a child on a military base, they would be legally shit-out-of-luck as the 3-year-time-bar would make this a legal impossibility. And even if the 3-year-time-bar hadn’t applied, any of the charges that Colonel Daniel Edward Munro had dismissed against Captain McRae could never be prosecuted at a later date by either a military or civilian tribunal. Under Canadian law, once charges are dropped, they’re dropped.
Brigadier General Roger Bazin – In 2010 he was investigated by the CFNIS and charged with molesting a child on Canadian Forces Base Borden when he was a chaplain there in 1974. Charges made it all the way to civilian court when the charges were suddenly dropped without any explanation from the courts. Charges would not have been able to proceed due to the 3-year-time-bar that existed in the pre-1998 National Defence Act. As the abuse would have occurred on a defence establishment by a member of the regular forces, these crimes would have been “Service Offences” and would have had to be dealt with under the National Defence Act as parliament in 1998 failed to make the removal of the 3-year-time-bar retroactive.
Colonel Russell Williams, Base Commander Canadian Forces Base Trenton. Williams joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1987 and had unlimited and easy access to the children living on the bases in Canada. Did Russell Williams just snap and become a rapist and a murderer? Highly unlikely. One of the civilian police investigators involved with investigating the murder of Jessica Lloyd noted that what was indicated as William’s first break and enter was done with such skill that this investigator was sure that this was in fact not his first break and enter, postulating that Williams had been doing this for years. Were the Canadian Forces lying when they said they looked at William’s previous postings to see if anything had happened on those bases? Considering that the military communities on base are extremely dynamic and vary from year to year with postings and retirements, the people living on a base in 1992 would not people the same people living on a base in 2010. The way the military has historically kept records leaves a lot to be desired. For example if I filed an ATI to list the PMQs that I lived in or the pre-1994 military operated schools I attended as a child, I wouldn’t receive any information. Why? That information would be recorded in my father’s service file. Okay, so just find out what service members lived on the bases Williams served on. Still nope. Postings and attachments are in the member’s service file. There was no records of who lived in which PMQs over the years. So, who exactly were the CFNIS investigators in 2010 going to talk to about Williams’ behaviour on previous postings? And it’s not like the CFNIS could go through military police records to look for previous complaints that match the modus operandi of Russell Williams. The military police record keeping system was a complete shambles prior to 1998.
So yeah, let’s go on pretending that the Canadian Armed Forces bases were safe places for children to grow up on and that the pre-1998 military justice system wasn’t a complete joke that was just ripe for the abuse of power.
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