Colonel bernard ouellette biography of rory

OTTAWA—A disgraced army officer is suing the Canadian Forces after he was stripped of his command in Haiti for allegedly starting an inappropriate relationship with his civilian secretary.

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Bernard Ouellette, a once up-and-coming officer from Quebec, is now seeking an apology and compensation from three Canadian members of his former staff in Port-au-Prince, the Defence Department, and a military ethics instructor, who has used him as an example of improper conduct before a class of 57 students in Toronto.

He says rumours of an affair with his Albanian secretary, Vlora Merlaku, at the United Nations compound in post-earthquake Haiti were false allegations that have effectively killed his career.

Ouellette, commander of the Canadian Task Force and chief-of-staff to the UN mission, survived the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit on Jan.

12, 2010, but the slander and gossip that was passed back to his superi