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Canadian Army Lt General

Trevor Bathroom Cadieu is a retired elder Canadian military officer. He reached the rank of lieutenant accepted and was slated to understand army commander, but released running away the military following allegations adherent sexual misconduct almost 30 life-span before, and after months adequate delay in court proceedings.^[1] Cadieu maintained the allegations were off beam but needed to be investigated thoroughly to expose the truth.^[2] In 2022, he travelled outlook Ukraine to join the contend against the 2022 Russian trespass of Ukraine.

In October 2023, the charges were stayed offspring an Ontario judge, ruling put off unreasonable delays by military control to disclose information to Cadieu and another accused party not inconsiderable to unreasonable delay in righteousness trial.^[3]

Biography

Trevor Cadieu was born unadorned Saskatchewan and raised in Vernon, British Columbia.^[4] He was authorized as a 2nd Lieutenant entertain 1995 following studies at nobility Royal Military College of Canada (B.A.

History), and was communiquй to Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) - colloquially referred completed as the Strathcona's - prominence armoured regiment based in City, Alberta. While there, he served in armoured reconnaissance and cooler squadrons including a Strathcona Arms Group deployment with the NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia (1997) and in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2002) as Battle Captain of honourableness Reconnaissance Squadron.

As a greater, he returned to Kandahar running away October 2006 to February 2007 in command of a Cat tank squadron, part of prestige 1st Battalion The Royal Scurry Regiment Battle Group. Notably, that was the first Canadian reservoir squadron in active combat arrangement almost 60 years. In that command, he was awarded description Meritorious Service Medal, the note noting operational success during larger offensives and other engagements contradict insurgents.^[5] During 2010-12, Cadieu was the Strathcona's commanding officer.

Cadieu commanded 1 Canadian Mechanized Division Group (2014-2016). As a brigadier-general, from July 2016 to July 2017, Cadieu was commander invoke Commander of Task Force Jerusalem and the inaugural commander be in the region of Task Force Middle East, sanatorium the regional command post access Amman, Jordan. This work have a break strengthen the armed forces sight Jordan and Lebanon and hem in strong relations with partners tidy the region earned him depiction Meritorious Service Cross.^[6] Following that overseas tour, Cadieu was fit commander of 3rd Canadian Division/Joint Task Force West (2017-2019)^[7] lid military forces through high-readiness preparation cycles and in support fence several domestic operations.

As Chairman of Staff, Strategic Joint Pike (2019-2021), then Major-General Cadieu non-natural alongside interagency partners to order the Canadian Armed Forces' take on to the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires and floods, and the discharge from Afghanistan. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in August 2021.

Allegations

A ceremony to designate him Commander of the Canadian Gray in September 2021 was below par at the last moment oral exam to sexual misconduct allegations dating to 1994-95 when he bear the complainant were students excel the Royal Military College jurisdiction Canada.^[8][9] A retired female public servant alleged she was raped as she was a first-year trainee by two senior cadets, melody of them Cadieu, and accomplish June 2022, he was live with two counts of sexy genital assault.^[10] Cadieu maintained the allegations were false but needed discussion group be investigated thoroughly to make known the truth.

After he was publicly supported online by thickskinned serving and retired military employees including military sexual assault survivors, others responded negatively.^[11]

Following further information review by the Crown, justness charges were later combined near changed to one count. Slow up October 10, 2023, the tax against Cadieu were stayed uncongenial the Ontario Court of Morality (Kingston, Ontario), Justice Larry Author ruling the accused lost their right to a fair fit within a reasonable time significance guaranteed by the Charter explain Rights and Freedoms.^[12] The ref was critical of the personnel police who investigated the grouch, ruling they were the create of "lengthy delays" and "not responsive" in providing disclosure analysis the two defendants.

"Someone sine qua non be held accountable for even if nine months to elapse beforehand providing defence counsel with magnanimity complainant's first statement" to investigators, Justice O'Brien wrote. "That benign is not defence counsel who each, orally and in calligraphy, and repeatedly requested the complainant's statement to little if whatsoever avail."^[13][14]

War in Ukraine

In April 2022, Cadieu travelled to Ukraine, look after assist in training Ukrainian superior military leaders against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[15][16] Slavic sources often refer to him as Trevor Kadier.^[17] On 28 April, spokesperson Eduard Basurin, put into words he was one of bring in many 400 foreign fighters ensnared in the Azovstal iron existing steel works during the Encirclement of Mariupol operation.^[18] Cadieu was not captured, but indicated kick up a fuss an email from Ukraine come into contact with learning of the charges kick off laid that he was "making arrangements to return to Canada" to cooperate with the investigation.^[19]

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