I thought it was interestingly late, but on the other hand, should I be surprised? No.
I was quite curious about how the committee that was appointed by Minister Blaney would go ahead with this, because it is complex. Depleted uranium is something that I had never heard of when I went to war—and I was involved in this—let alone anyone else. You may be aware of depleted uranium, but most of us sure weren't.
I took the time to go through the report. One thing that shocked me before I even cracked it open was that when I looked at who Major-General Pierre Morisset was—it didn't ring a bell in my brain—I realized that he was the deputy surgeon general for four years. He was appointed surgeon general in 1992. So for four years before 1992, from 1988 on, he was totally aware of us being sent to the Gulf War. Being part of the office of the surgeon general, and then himself becoming surgeon general in 1992 until 1994, he knew exactly what protocol any of us received, or he should have known.
That shocked me to know that he was totally involved. I was sent to war and came back sick, and was told, “You malingerer, it's all in your head”. DND allowed me to get more and more sick, and did not see to my physical illnesses, just “PTSD”, or “malingerer”. I was shocked and very disappointed to see that he chose to do nothing.