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The leadership of the Canadian Forces and Department of National Defence have always been sensitive about media coverage of the taxpayer-funded “Party Flight.”

Readers might remember this drunken junket where VIPs invited by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance partied away at public expense in late 2017. The result was a sexual assault charge laid against former NHL player Dave “Tiger” Williams (dropped in early May after an apology was made to the Canadian Forces flight attendant) and endless embarrassment for the Canadian Forces.

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Taxpayers laid out $337,000 for this exclusive party.

An internal military report later determined that the VIPs, some already drunk, boarded the Canadian Forces aircraft with open alcohol and their on-board antics later put the entire flight at risk. The VIPs danced in aisles. A VIP was so drunk he urinated himself. The flight attendants had been harassed.