Thank you for your question, Mr. Desilets.
The message is clear: If you have two children, you have to choose which one will receive all the benefits for the family. The other one will receive only 40%.
That makes it one of the most heinous documents. It's like telling your kids you are going to put more money into one education, one injury and one benefit. You are automatically telling the second son or the second daughter they're never going to go to university, they're never going to go anywhere, they're going to be stuck in lower class, they're going to be impoverished and they're never going to receive more than 40% of the benefits.
Exactly, sir.
I will note that Veterans Affairs Canada's document 1447 is the document you are referring to. It's called “The Insurance Principle”. At least Veterans Affairs Canada has a document which demonstrates that the government delineates wartime service and special duty service.
The Department of National Defence has no such document. It's like a unicorn. Until we started asking questions of the Department of National Defence about how this is chosen.... The Department of National Defence suddenly just said, “We decide arbitrarily, and we systematically choose special duty service every single time.”
That was their message.