Do the names Staff Sgt Stenhouse and Cpl Robert Read ring a bell?

"This week's testimony, during which Zaccardelli insisted there was no coverup and that he never punished whistleblowers by transferring them to different jobs, was marked by audible gasps of incredulity from officers in the committee room"

An inquiry will take 2-3 years. In the meantime there are a number of senior officers that need to be replaced- the sooner the better.Too much politicization and bureaucratization has been going on- one just needs to read some of the reports to know that they were written by bureaucrats.The Commissioner acts as a Deputy Minister . They should report to Parliament instead of to the government. How many problems were caused by trying not to make the previous government look bad instead of dealing directly with wrongdoing wherever it was found? Some people were trying to be too cute by half because they had the power.In the meantime honest, dedicated , experienced top investigators were given the fast shuffle.

Seems like there needs to be a refresher course on integrity and ethics for the senior management not the investigators.What kind of signals went to the rank and file when senior investigators were stonewalled? Investigators are trained to find the truth. It takes years to achieve that level of expertise. What are Canadians to think when internal roadblocks are put up to throw senior investigators off the trail??

It took a lot of courage for these investigators to go public knowing full well the repercussions that landed on whistleblowers before them ( with no protection).Staff Sgt Stenhouse and Cpl Read know only too well what can happen when they spoke out after being stonewalled. The sooner the organization refocuses on crooks and not experienced investigators, the better off we all will be.