There are shaking heads. No.
They said, “The CAF has recommended mefloquine as an option for malaria prevention since the early 1990s.” It was an option and they note that “Other options were available”. They indicate further that it was “the patient's choice”, but we know that in 1992 tens of thousands of free mefloquine tablets were made available to the Canadian Armed Forces troops deployed in Somalia as part of a clinical trial.
Our surgeon general in his 2017 report said that “The CAF members deploying to Somalia did not participate in the SMS study, since the guidelines of the study were not compatible with the operational requirement to deploy to Somalia”. Yet that was the drug they were ordered to take and had to use the entire time they were there.
Is that not in your mind some kind of a moral or legal breach when you are requiring and demanding that they take that drug, and yet it was not followed through with as a study in a way that it was intended to be used?
Are there any comments on that?