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https://nationalpost.com/news/canadi...report-reveals

The Canadian Forces’ mission to Latvia has been dogged with complaints of harassment and unprofessional behaviour, prompting the military to send an investigator to the country to get to the bottom of the problems.

The investigation, launched last year, focused on the behaviour of staff in the civil-military co-operation or J9 section of Canada’s Task Force Latvia and was the result of a complaint alleging harassment and unprofessional conduct.

The probe discovered that some staff openly mocked the senior leadership in Canada, circulated negative cartoons about the military’s gender advisor assigned to the mission, and conducted a “whisper campaign” against an incoming commanding officer.

There was a “culture of withholding information” and “members of the J9 section were habituated to unprofessional comments in the presence of junior officers and NCMs (non-commissioned members),” according to a March 2018 report by Lt. Col. Jeremy Fountain, who was sent to Latvia to investigate and interview staff members. Postmedia obtained the report under the Access to Information Act.