{"id":45601,"date":"2018-11-06T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45601"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:44:50","slug":"fly-the-party-flight-with-canadian-forces-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/fly-the-party-flight-with-canadian-forces-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly the “Party Flight” with Canadian (Forces) Airways!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the Ottawa Citizen<\/em>, David Pugliese<\/a> reminds us that not all is right with the higher-ups of the Canadian military, based on what was allowed to occur — and at least partly covered-up — on a VIP flight last year:<\/p>\n

The December 2017 \u201cTeam Canada\u201d tour \u2013 now more popularly known in some quarters in the military as \u201cthe party flight\u201d \u2013 has without a doubt been a major public relations black eye for the Canadian Forces.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cTiger\u201d Williams were exempt from security screening before the flight, and some \u2014 already drunk \u2014 walked on to the Canadian Forces aircraft with open alcoholic drinks in their hands.<\/p>\n

Two individuals were so drunk they were reported to have urinated themselves. Video taken aboard the plane showed people \u2014 including a staff member from Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance\u2019s office \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

The military flight crew was prohibited from approaching the VIPs except to provide them with service. The crew felt they couldn\u2019t do anything to put a halt to the antics as these very important people were Vance\u2019s guests.<\/p>\n

Williams has been charged with sex assault and assault. He denies the charges.<\/p>\n

The $337,000 taxpayer-funded trip was planned by Vance\u2019s office. Vance okayed the booze on the RCAF aircraft.<\/p>\n

We know all of this now.<\/p>\n

But almost right from the beginning, the Canadian Forces\/Department of National Defence Staff Public Affairs branch appeared to try its best to mislead journalists \u2013 and ultimately the public \u2013 on what actually took place on that flight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Ottawa Citizen, David Pugliese reminds us that not all is right with the higher-ups of the Canadian military, based on what was allowed to occur — and at least partly covered-up — on a VIP flight last year: The December 2017 \u201cTeam Canada\u201d tour \u2013 now more popularly known in some quarters in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,5],"tags":[123,343,51,214,413],"class_list":["post-45601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-military","tag-aircraft","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-pr","tag-rcaf","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bRv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45602,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45601\/revisions\/45602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}