Thank you, MP Blaney.
In short, it would make headaches and problems go away. For the people who are involved with providing service dogs and dealing with people with PTSD, we suffer from.... First off, we don't trust anybody. A disproportionate number of us have anger issues that result in a thing called SIR, which is situationally inappropriate response. We have them in droves.
Knowing that we have the full backing of the legislation of this country at a federal level, so that whether I am in Saint John's, Newfoundland; Taloyoak, Nunavut; or Victoria, B.C., I know what the rules are and I know what my rights are, we can educate every Canadian as to exactly how that is. That uniformity is absolutely paramount.
To hear that a service dog...and the lack of understanding of how to deal with an individual with a serious disability in such a complex manner does not surprise me. The easy answer is no. Then you don't have to do anything except for the poor guy or gal who is at risk of becoming homeless over something that should be a fundamental right. That needs to be addressed. Unfortunately, no matter how much I have tried to push this peanut up the hill, it keeps rolling back down.
People like Dani know because they have been involved in this for decades. I really think you need to defer to people like ADI, who operate in 80-plus countries. This isn't a cottage industry that Ms. O'Brien thought up in her basement last weekend because she was bored. This goes back decades.
That's the thing. These standards exist. The problem is that we don't have them because of that group I told you about that literally took this thing off the rails. That is unconscionable.
