Yes. It happened to me in 2005 before I applied for compensation for post-traumatic stress syndrome. The application did not actually come from me. Someone suggested that I apply. He convinced me that I had it and that I had to get treated for it. He said that it wasn't right and that it would turn out badly. I did not even know that I had post-traumatic stress syndrome. But I knew that my experience in the military was the problem.
So, yes, some bureaucrats are not very polite to us, especially when you call the number on the card that veterans are issued. We are often told that we are free to go somewhere else if we are not happy. Sometimes, we just get put on hold. Then we just have to hang up, because there is no one on the other end anymore. We never know where in Canada we are calling. We might be talking to someone in New Brunswick or someone in Winnipeg. We never know who we are talking to. We have to give up on the idea of calling the same person back; the same person never answers. That has happened a number of times.
A comrade of mine told me recently that, when he was in a psychiatrist's office, he was accused of trying to manipulate people. He was told that he should be happy to get the pension he was getting because other people could work for 40 years and not get that amount in their old age. That is the kind of comment that someone else reported to me recently.