A Quebec judge is set to deliver his verdict this afternoon in a high-profile sexual assault case involving a senior military commander who once led Canada's vaccine rollout.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin was removed from his job in 2021 during a military police investigation that later led to the sexual assault charge.
The complainant said she was "100 per cent without a doubt" it was Fortin who sexually assaulted her in 1988. The complainant's identity is protected under a court-ordered publication ban. Maj.-Gen. Danny Fortin, right, and his wife Madeleine Collin, centre, wait for the doors of an elevator to close at a Gatineau, Que. courthouse in September.
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