When you're in the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Forces looks after you, and does a very good job of it. The day you leave the Canadian Forces or are released from the Canadian Forces, you are on your own. If you do not have a pensioned condition for Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs has nothing to do with you. If you're sick or not, it doesn't matter. You could be laying on a deathbed, and if you don't have what's called a “pension condition”, you get nothing. There's no care for a veteran from Veterans Affairs.
This is the only way ahead for the one-offs like myself.