Michael Rouleau

Lieutenant-General Michael Norman Rouleau is the current Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command.

Military career
Rouleau joined the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in 1985 as an artillery officer.

In 1999, he retired from the CAF and joined the ranks of the Ottawa Carleton Regional Police Service. Nevertheless, he re-enrolled in the CAF in 2002 following the events of 9-11.

Rouleau has been the Commander of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command since February 2014.

He has been named Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command in June 2018.

Incidents
In 2015, Rouleau accidentally fired his rifle near another military officer. After pleading guilty in martial court in 2016, he was fined 2,000 dollars. At the time of the incident, he was a 28-year veteran of the CAF.