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Roosevelt rejected the report, noting that the subcommittee's two Republican members had condemned him whereas the one Democrat issued a minority report. In his report, Supreme Court Justice Wishart Spence found no criminal wrongdoing or security breach, but he did criticize Diefenbaker's dealing with of the case. Most noted amongst these was the Associate Minister of National Defence, Pierre Sévigny, who met her within the summer time of 1958. She applied for Canadian citizenship in 1960. A routine security check by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) discovered elements in her background that raised questions. He was changed as leader of the party by Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1968. Diefenbaker did not fare any higher. The affair involved Gerda Munsinger, a German citizen who had been convicted in Germany as a standard prostitute, a petty thief and a smuggler, who emigrated to Canada in 1956 regardless of a warning card dated 1952, and who was in 1960 the mistress of the previous Associate Minister of National Defence Pierre Sévigny. Munsinger had been accepted right into a Canadian Immigration program searching for younger girls displaced by battle to work as domestics and au pairs in Canada. The time period has since turn into a derogatory time period applied to trans girls.