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The Canadian Forces has retreated in its attempt to put a cloak of secrecy over its response to concerns raised by a special commission looking into the suicide of an Afghan veteran.

The move comes after the Citizen reported earlier this week that the military and the Department of National Defence had slapped a “secret” order on its response to the high-profile Military Police Complaints Commission report on the 2008 suicide of Afghanistan war veteran Cpl. Stuart Langridge.

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The “Protected B” designation over the response would have meant that neither Langridge’s family nor the public would ever know whether the military had either accepted or implemented the recommendations that emerged from the commission’s public inquiry.

The commission has gone to Federal Court to try to force the military to back down from its position.

But on Friday, Col. Rob Delaney, the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal and commander of military police, said he was lifting the “Protected B” designation and that the military’s response to the recommendations would be publicly available Tuesday.