Personally, I've dealt with many members in our department, and five members of ours have died from cancer in the last 10 years. A couple, unfortunately, were not covered. Christopher Relph, as I mentioned before, was not covered under the provincial legislation in this province due to the fact that his cancer didn't meet the time periods. We're currently in the WCB appeal process to try to get it covered.
How this affects my family is about the knowledge and understanding that they may not be covered going forward. That always weighs on my wife's mind. There's a possibility that I won't be covered should I unfortunately contract cancer as my fellow colleagues did. That's always on their minds, and it's a bit sad for them to not have the knowledge that they would be fully covered.
