I'd like to just mention this to you, Mark. In our preamble notes, we have, “From an operational standpoint, the link between the medical condition and military service is not relevant” to the Canadian Armed Forces. So whether you've been injured because of service or for another reason, it's irrelevant to them the reason that you're being medically released. When it becomes relevant is when you suddenly are being served by VAC “because it involves the Government of Canada’s responsibility to support and compensate citizens whose physical, mental and professional capacities have been affected by their uniformed service to their country”.
That, to me...I have nowhere to put that. It just seems to me to be totally inappropriate that you have served and you have to go, then, and prove and reprove again that you have been medically released from the armed forces, without their saying that before you've been released as part of their requirement to say that this individual has this condition and qualifies for whatever VAC has.
Do you have any comments on that? Am I off base?