I don't really have much to say. I'll recap what happened.
I was injured in January of 2007. I lost both feet. At that time I was a sniper with the military. I had a pretty good career ahead of me, I thought. Getting injured was the easy part. Rehab was easy compared to dealing with the bureaucracy, that is, the after-care.
I think Paul and I have a few different ideas on some things. I didn't suffer medically. I went to Toronto, to one of the best rehabs in Ontario. I've heard it's probably in the top 10 in Canada anyway for provincial health care. I've gotten any prosthesis I've asked for. I have running legs. I've run half-marathons. I run five-kilometre races all the time.
I have two awesome kids with one of the medics who saved my life. She's actually been diagnosed with PTSD. She was going to come today, but we have two little kids, so she couldn't make it.
Even when I was invited here...I don't know how they found out, but my chain of command sent an e-mail, even before I told them I had been invited, telling me I wasn't allowed to come in uniform because they were afraid of what I might say. That's straight from their mouths, from my CO, Colonel Blais.
I've been with the JPSU since, I believe, 2010. I was posted to Ottawa at the request of General Semianiw, who was CMP, Chief of Military Personnel, at the time, to help the system. I have had exactly that much influence. I was asked to leave the office I was in because I was trouble, I guess.
It's a bureaucracy. To this day, we still haven't resolved our home modifications. Paul was just talking about his kitchen. I wish the kitchen was my only problem. I still live in a home that isn't done, as far as modifications. We started in 2007 on a separate home. After Semianiw asked me to move here—after we were posted here—we started on another home. That started in 2009. It's not done; it's done in their eyes because they're done with the file.
This thing I brought here is just a sample of the paperwork that Alannah, my wife, and I—she's a medic; I was a sniper. We're not paperwork people. But this is...I brought copies for....