The country's military police watchdog found investigators failed to conduct a rigorous investigation into a sexual assault allegation against former senior military leader Dany Fortin, but that outside pressure didn't influence the case.

The head of the Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada called the issues she discovered "failures" and wants the military to address systemic problems.

"While the evidence does not support the allegation of improper external influence, it reveals an investigation compromised by tunnel vision, a lack of supervisory oversight and a failure to adhere to fundamental investigative principles," the watchdog's chairperson Tammy Tremblay wrote in her final report, made public on Tuesday.

"These are not minor administrative errors; they are failures th

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