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Post by Trooper Sat 17 Feb 2018, 9:30 am

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A pre-Christmas trip of sports stars and senior military personnel was supposed to boost the morale of
overseas troops. Instead, the trip to Athens has led to an allegation of assault and complaints of drunken,
boorish behaviour.


By BRUCE CAMPION-SMITHOttawa Bureau

Fri., Feb. 16, 2018


OTTAWA—It was meant as a pre-Christmas morale booster, a trip by sports stars and senior military personnel to visit Canadian soldiers deployed overseas.

But the troubles started even before the military Airbus aircraft got off the ground in Ottawa when several of the passengers showed up for the 1 p.m. departure and appeared to have already been drinking.

It went downhill from there.

By the time the jet arrived in Athens more than eight hours later, there was an allegation of assault against a former Maple Leafs star and complaints of drunken, boorish behaviour by others, including two people so drunk they wet themselves in their seats.

As the fallout of the ill-fated December tour continues to ripple, the military has cancelled plans for a March morale visit and is reviewing its policies for alcohol consumption onboard military aircraft.

Past goodwill tours have included entertainers, athletes and media figures who donate their time to visit soldiers overseas. But this most recent tour has left military brass shaking their heads. Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of defence staff, is said to be “extremely unhappy.”

“We’ve never seen anything like this,” one astonished defence official told the Star.

The Star has spoken to several defence department officials about what unfolded on the trip. They asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information and an ongoing internal investigation by the Royal Canadian Air Force.

One of the stars on this tour was Dave “Tiger” Williams, a former Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer and a regular participant on these goodwill visits. The military has refused to identify who else travelled with the contingent.

The trips are organized by the Strategic Outreach Team, which reports to Vance’s office. Vance has gone on these Team Canada trips in the past but skipped this one because of a scheduling conflict.

Two senior personnel went in his place — Lt.-Gen. Alain Parent, the vice chief of defence staff, and Chief Warrant Officer Kevin West, the most senior non-commissioned member of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Military flights usually have strict policies regarding the consumption of alcohol. But those rules are relaxed when civilians are carried onboard. On Team Canada flights, a small amount of alcohol is provided by the military, and participants are also allowed to bring their own for consumption during the trip, which often involves lengthy overseas flights.

That was the case for this most recent tour, which departed Ottawa on Dec. 2, headed first to Athens, Greece to meet up with the crew of the frigate HMCS Charlottetown, then on deployment in the Mediterranean Sea.

But several members of the tour who showed up for the mid-day departure had already been drinking, one source familiar with events told the Star.

“They showed up with their own alcohol, and they were already inebriated,” the source said.

Once airborne, there was a “bit of a party going on,” the source said, with yet more drinking by a small group gathered at the back of the cabin.

One passenger invited a female steward to “sit on his lap,” the source said.

Another passenger tried to wrap his arm around a female steward. “They were grabbed like they were in a bar,” the source said, making the woman feel “uncomfortable.”

Two passengers were so intoxicated that they urinated in their seats. And yet another is alleged to have sworn at a steward.

It was during this flight to Athens — not the later leg to Latvia, contrary to earlier information provided by the military — that Williams is alleged to have assaulted a female steward. His lawyer, Michael Lacy, said in an earlier statement, that military police allege that Williams touched the victim on the buttocks.

Following their troop visit in Greece, the goodwill tour continued to Riga, Latvia — that flight too had a “lot of partying,” the source said.

While the alleged assault by Williams had been immediately reported to the first officer while the flight was still in the air to Greece, it wasn’t until after the tour’s arrival in Latvia that the chain of command was formally notified. “It was not only unpleasant, it’s not okay. These women want a safe working environment,” the source said.

That delay partly explains why Williams was allowed to continue on the tour and participate in events in Latvia.

Once notified, commanders took steps to “distance the victim from the accused,” the military explained in an earlier statement. The victim and other female flight stewards all accepted an offer to return home on commercial flights.

“The bottom line is that we took care of the victim with respect and dignity, while dealing with the accused through a thorough and expedient police investigation,” the statement said.

Just over a week ago, the military police announced that Williams had been charged with one count of assault and one count of sexual assault.

“Tiger denies any wrongdoing and is confident he will be vindicated,” Lacy, the lawyer, said in his statement.

Over the past week, the military has been pressed to explain why Williams was allowed to continue on the tour even though the alleged misbehaviour occurred on the initial flight. And there have been questions about what, if anything, Parent and West knew about the activity on the plane. A senior source says they only became aware of the alleged assault later, after the tour was over.

In the wake of the charges and bad publicity, the military announced this week that it was reviewing its policy on serving alcohol onboard air force flights, whether to limit passengers to two drinks or eliminate it altogether.

“On this particular flight, like on commercial flights, alcohol was permitted and served to Team Canada guests — not aircrew,” defence department spokesperson Daniel Le Bouthillier said in an email.

“The intent behind this practice is to enable participants to enjoy a few beverages throughout the course of a long trip, not unlike a commercial flight,” he said.

“Much like passengers on civilian aircraft, participants on these trips are responsible for knowing their own limits, while air crew members are professionally trained to recognize signs of intoxication,” Le Bouthillier said.

The Royal Canadian Navy went through its own soul-searching about drinking onboard warships after several incidents of bad behaviour by sailors. The navy decided in 2014 to ban sailors from consuming alcohol while at sea.

Plans for future goodwill tours are also in limbo. A trip planned for March was already up in the air because of troubles rounding up entertainers and artists. It’s now been postponed and the military is weighing whether such trips are worth the effort and expense.

“Due to limited VIP availability, we have decided to postpone a previously scheduled visit for March to ensure the focus remains on providing deployed troops with a quality, relevant experience,” Le Bouthillier said.

He said that the Team Canada concept launched a dozen years ago to serve military personnel deployed in large numbers in Afghanistan is now under review.

“The morale of our deployed members is extremely important to the operational effectiveness of the Canadian Armed Forces, and Team Canada visits have been a unique way to show our appreciation for their personal sacrifices,” he said.

“We are also examining ways to enhance the program with the intent to always meet the needs of our people,” Le Bouthillier said.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/02/16/peeing-in-the-seats-military-eyes-air-force-alcohol-ban-after-troubled-vip-trip.html
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Controversial Canadian military VIP 'party flight' cost taxpayers more than $337K

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Post by Spectrum Thu 18 Oct 2018, 8:48 am

Crew told not to rein in drunk, abusive VIP guests on Canadian military ‘party flight,’ probe finds

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Post by Starman Mon 05 Nov 2018, 6:27 am

Canadian Forces misled media and public on $337,000 taxpayer-funded VIP booze flight

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Public not misled over boozy morale-building trip: defence minister

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Post by Replica Tue 13 Nov 2018, 8:06 pm

Sajjan, Deputy Minister dig a deeper hole for themselves on $337,000 “party flight”

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Post by Spectrum Sat 17 Nov 2018, 10:10 am

Rightwing Media Tries To Hang Sajjan For Troubling Defence “Party Party Flight”

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

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While the rightwing Canadian media like the Ottawa Citizen tried to blame all the army flight mess on Sajjan, the Okanagan Conservatives even went a few notches lower on the low-life scale by spouting racist nonsense at Sajjan. The Conservative MP from the Okanagan finally apologized to Sajjan for a Facebook post linking a critical news report of Sajjan to affirmative action. Former NHL player Dave “Tiger” Williams, who was one of the drunk VIP guests on the “party flight”, was charged with sex assault and assault.

VANCOUVER – Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan was getting heat this week from many quarters for a defence department “party flight” that featured drunk and abusive participants on a public dime.

Meanwhile the rightwing Canadian media like the Ottawa Citizen tried to blame all the army flight mess on Sajjan and the Okanagan Conservatives even went a few notches lower on the low-life scale by spouting racist nonsense at Sajjan.

The Conservative MP from the Okanagan finally apologized to Sajjan for a Facebook post linking a critical news report of Sajjan to affirmative action.

The now-deleted post on the “Okanagan Conservatives” Facebook group read: “This is what happens when you have a cabinet based on affirmative action” with a link to a recent article about Sajjan’s role in a $337,000 morale-boosting trip overseas in which some passengers on a flight were reportedly intoxicated and abusive to staff.

Okanagan-area Conservative MP Dan Albas, who represents Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola, said the post originated from another electoral district association and he asked for it to be removed, reported Global TV.

“Although I did not authorize it, I would like to apologize to (Harjit Sajjan),” Albas wrote in a tweet.

“Minister Sajjan has served our country honourably in many capacities and was undeserving of the comments that were posted.Political debate and discussions should always be about policy and not personal attacks.”

In a tweet, Sajjan called the comments “completely unacceptable,” and said he was happy that “some members of the Conservatives” realized that.

Conservative MPs last week peppered Sajjan with questions about the now infamous December 2017 Canadian Forces “Team Canada” tour.

The tour, with VIPs who were supposed to boost the morale of military personnel deployed overseas, turned into a fiasco. Some VIPs on the RCAF flight to Greece and Latvia were drunk and abusive to the crew, in particular the military flight attendants.

The VIP civilian passengers, including former NHL player Dave “Tiger” Williams were exempt from security screening before the flight, and some — already drunk — walked on to the Canadian Forces aircraft with open alcoholic drinks in their hands.

Two individuals were so drunk they were reported to have urinated themselves. Video taken aboard the plane showed people — including a staff member from Chief of the Defence Staff Gen.

Jon Vance’s office — dancing in the aisles of the aircraft with their drinks as a rock band played at the back of the plane. Others chewed tobacco, in violation of Canadian Forces rules, spitting the slimy juice into cups for flight attendants to clean up, reported the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.

The crew felt they couldn’t do anything to put a halt to the antics as these very important people were Vance’s guests. Some military personnel have labelled the fiasco the “party flight” while some in the RCAF refer to the Dec. 2-3 2017 incident as the “Mardi Gras at 34,000 feet.”

Williams has been charged with sex assault and assault. He denies the charges. The alleged victim is a military flight attendant.

The $337,000 taxpayer-funded trip was planned by Vance’s office. Vance okayed the booze on the RCAF aircraft.

Conservative MPs James Bezan and Cheryl Gallant grilled Sajjan at the Commons defence committee last Thursday about what he knew about the flight and when. They questioned whether his department and the Canadian Forces tried to mislead the public and the news media, namely the Ottawa Citizen, about what happened on the flight.

Sajjan didn’t give a clear answer on when he found out about the problems on the aircraft but said his department and the Canadian Forces don’t mislead journalists. He noted that the priority for the DND and Canadian military is to ensure a harassment-free environment and helping victims of alleged sexual impropriety.

Jody Thomas, Deputy Minister at the Department of National Defence, told parliamentarians there was no attempt to mislead the Ottawa Citizen. “ Information was released as it became available,” Thomas said.


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Post by RevForce Tue 07 May 2019, 9:21 pm

'He's taken away so much from me': Sex assault case dropped against former NHLer Tiger Williams

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Former Toronto Maple Leaf Dave 'Tiger' Williams salutes the crowd on military honour night before a game in Toronto on March 16, 2013.



The Ottawa Crown Attorney’s office has dropped its sexual assault case against retired NHL enforcer David “Tiger” Williams after the former hockey player apologized for his regrettable behaviour aboard a drunken 2017 “Team Canada” trip that cost a military flight attendant her “dream career” and put her in the throes of PTSD.



Williams, 65, filed a brief apology in Ottawa court Tuesday as part of a resolution that had the Crown also drop an assault charge.

“During the flight, I consumed alcohol. My behaviour towards one (military) staff member on the plane caused her to feel uncomfortable. I do regret my actions and I apologize,” Williams’ apology said.

The December 2017 “Team Canada” tour, with VIPs who were supposed to boost the morale of military personnel deployed overseas, turned into a fiasco.

The $337,000 taxpayer-funded trip was planned by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance’s office. Vance OK’d the booze on the RCAF aircraft.

Video taken aboard the plane showed people — including a staff member from Vance’s office — dancing in the aisles of the aircraft with their drinks as a rock band played at the back of the plane.

Williams didn’t attend court, but the flight attendant did, and she filed an impact statement as part of the agreed resolution.

She still has nightmares and said high-ranking military officials aboard the party flight did nothing to help.

“I was lost, confused, and feeling pretty betrayed,” she wrote.

The former flight attendant — now grounded because of health reasons — cannot be named because of a publication ban.

“I was overwhelmed by the lack of support from the higher ranks,” she wrote in the impact statement.

She detailed a boozy party flight that had so-called VIPs getting so drunk they urinated on themselves.

They were drooling and stumbling. She spent most of the flight trying to avoid Williams and said cleaning up after the “VIPs” was degrading. They left behind coffee cups full of tobacco spit. She said she was told prior to the flight that VIPs can do whatever they want.

“I felt very powerless and lost on the flight, as the example is supposed to come from the top, ‘if you see something, say something,’ but the top was there, and they didn’t do anything to help us (flight attendants),” she wrote.

“If it had happened anywhere else in my life, I would have immediately raised my voice in protest and defended myself, but as the situation was ‘just make them happy,’ I felt that I would get in trouble if I defended myself verbally with a VIP.”

After she said Williams touched her twice, she spent the flight trying to avoid him, saying she didn’t want to “give him another chance.”

She said she’s no longer the same person. Just a husk, she said, of how she once was — motivated, animated and outgoing. “Now I’m terrified, depressed, medicated, and anxious. My entire world has been flipped upside down,” she said.

“Mr. Williams has taken away so much from me.”

She said the former NHLer’s apology is a good thing but it should have been heartfelt and freely offered.

She’s now in counselling and suffers from severe anxiety when triggered.

“If I hear a phrase that Mr. Williams used, or a sound or a smell (white rum specifically) that reminds me of that day, I completely shut down, and either have a full-blown panic attack, or I dissociate to try and stay numb to the feelings. I am exhausted. I am barely keeping my head above water,” she wrote.

During his NHL career, Williams played for teams including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Detroit Red Wings and Los Angeles Kings. He holds the NHL record for most career penalty minutes. He retired in 1988 and now lives in Calgary.

The sexual assault case was scheduled for an eight-day trial in June.

If the case had gone to court, Williams’ lawyer Michael Lacy said he would have vigorously fought the charges.

An agreed statement of “background facts” — which described the VIP military flight as a party — was filed in court, and while Williams has apologized, he has not made any admission of wrongdoing and the criminal case against him was formally withdrawn before Ontario Court Justice Norman Boxall.

Vance had said he was disappointed about what happened on the flight but he staunchly defended the tours, pointing out they provide a valuable boost in morale to troops. “The band playing in the back of the plane, that’s some team building for people who have never met soldiers before and are going to go into maybe a dangerous place,” he told reporters about the flight last year. “So, it’s not a Mardi Gras. It’s not a party. It’s a mission.”

An internal military investigation, however, told a different story.

The civilian passengers were exempt from security screening because they were VIPs and some – already drunk — walked on to the Canadian Forces aircraft with alcoholic drinks in their hands, according to that investigation.

In addition, the behaviour of some VIPs was so out of control that a February 2018 RCAF investigation concluded the safety of the flight was compromised. “The state of some of the passengers could have compromised the safety of the crew and other passengers in an emergency situation,” noted Col. Mark Goulden, commander of 8 Wing.

The Canadian Forces originally claimed to journalists that the “average cost of such a (morale) visit is $15,000.”

But Postmedia later compiled figures showing the flight cost taxpayers more than $337,000.

The flight crew was prohibited from approaching the VIPs “except as required to fulfill service expectations,” according to the investigation.

But in his response to the investigation, Vance disputed the findings about the aircrew being under pressure from commanders to let VIPs do whatever they wanted. Instead, the existing rules allowed for the crew to stop the passengers from boarding the plane with open alcoholic drinks, the general noted.

Vance also challenged the investigation’s view that the VIPs on the “Team Canada” visit were his guests. The general said instead they were “volunteers under contract to perform a role to support the troops at the invitation of the CDS.”





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Military adviser on junket that sparked sex assault charge against Tiger Williams now a consultant on sex misconduct team

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20 DND staff involved in writing letter after drunken junket article angers military leadership

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Post by Charlie Thu 18 Feb 2021, 8:47 am

DND team that organized drunken,
$337,000 VIP junket lacked proper
oversight: audit

The audit was launched in the wake of that 2017 Team Canada trip dubbed by some military officers as the “party flight” because of what unfolded on the RCAF passenger aircraft.


David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Publishing date: Feb 18, 2021


The organization responsible for a drunken VIP junket that resulted in the sexual assault of a Canadian Forces flight attendant had been operating for years without proper oversight, according to a defence department audit.

Department of National Defence auditors pointed to a lack of formal controls on some of the activities of the PR Operations Program, which operates out of the military’s Ottawa headquarters.


“Without formal administrative controls and guidelines, events may not be planned and executed in accordance with mandatory requirements, including obtaining appropriate expenditure authorities,” the newly released audit noted.

“Given the significance of these events, as well as the increased public scrutiny they attract, the governance mechanisms and business practices supporting this program need strengthening to ensure program objectives are met, and events are conducted in compliance with all applicable departmental and Government of Canada requirements.”


The audit was launched in the wake of that 2017 Team Canada trip dubbed by some military officers as the “party flight” because of what unfolded on the RCAF passenger aircraft. Some of the VIPs on the taxpayer-funded Canadian Forces morale tour were drunk and abusive to the military flight crew, an earlier DND investigation determined.

At least one VIP was so drunk he urinated on himself. Video from the flight showed people with their drinks — including one of the PR Operations Program staff — dancing in the aisles of the aircraft as a rock band played at the back. Others chewed tobacco, in violation of Canadian Forces rules, spitting the slimy juice into cups.

The trip to Greece and Latvia, which cost taxpayers $337,000, also resulted in a sex assault charge against former NHL player Dave “Tiger” Williams, one of the VIPs. The charge was later dropped after Williams apologized for his actions.

The military flight crew trying to deal with the unruly VIPs felt they had no choice but endure the behaviour as the individuals were guests of then Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance, according to the earlier DND investigation.

The separate audit examined the period when the team reported to Vance’s office from 2016 to May, 2019. “No formal structure is in place for the monitoring and reporting of program risk” to the defence chief and the deputy minister, the audit pointed out. Without such reporting “possible issues or concerns could go unreported or undetected,” it added.


In some cases there were processes in place to govern activities of the PR Operations Program but they were informal.

The program has four full-time employees and an annual budget of $400,000. It organizes VIP tours and other morale-boosting initiatives, such as appreciation events at hockey and baseball games for Canadian Forces personnel.

The audit didn’t examine specific events, the costs of those events, or whether value was received for the tax dollars spent.

After the VIP trip made headlines, Vance staunchly defended the tour, pointing out visits of such celebrities to overseas missions boost morale for the troops. “The band playing in the back of the plane, that’s some team building for people who have never met soldiers before and are going to go into maybe a dangerous place,” he said at the time. “So, it’s not a Mardi Gras. It’s not a party. It’s a mission.”

Privately, military officers challenged Vance’s claims. They noted the tour’s destinations — Greece and Riga, Latvia — were not dangerous places. In addition, they also point out most of those on the VIP tour have all been on previous visits to meet soldiers.

Vance blamed the military aircrew for not reining in the VIPs. They had the authority to get the VIPs under control but the crew lacked the training and confidence to do so, he noted.

Vance had said he had never heard of any issues with previous morale tours.

But after the general made that claim, military sources contacted this newspaper to point out that heavy drinking and partying was a feature on some of the previous tours. Photos were also provided from a 2010 military morale tour to Afghanistan showing similar behaviour, including one image featuring Williams with beads stuck up one of his nostrils. Other photos show individuals in the aisles of the aircraft with beer and a cooler set up on one of the seats.





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