I'll speak up.
It's very moving for all of us, and for all who are watching in the broader audience, to hear directly from someone like you who was at the heart of the combat, the conflict, the fight that Canada carried on for many years.
We are conducting this study of the ill and injured precisely because we know that the system hasn't worked for everyone, and that there are frustrations, including acute ones, such as the ones you've expressed.
Thank you for sharing your experience so frankly, and thank you for the courage you have shown in coming here and making these very painful memories and experiences public. Let me just say personally that you're a very impressive person for what you've done, for your ability to be here today, for your ability to try to overcome all of the adversity: PTSD, injuries, and witnessing terrible events in the ways that you have done.
Given that this incident happened almost five years ago, and you've given us part of the story, and probably the most frustrating parts for you, of how the system didn't serve you, could you take us through the major events that happened after September 3, 2008, as you recall them in theatre on your way back here? What kind of care did you receive? What frustrated and surprised you about it? What were the main stages, and what suggestions do you have for the committee as we struggle to formulate recommendations and try to ensure that the system better serves Canada's men and women in uniform?