Thank you for the question.
I hope that today it's different. I released in 2016, and back then when you were doing your last day as military personnel, you entered the building at 101 Colonel By Drive in Ottawa as a military person, so as a trusted person. The minute I went up the stairs and was meeting the last person with my piece of paper saying that I had quit—my quittance to every department—the civilian person who took my card in the ID section just said to me, “From now on you have to be escorted.”
I felt as though I was no longer trusted, as though I was no longer part of anything. It was like I was a prisoner or something and I couldn't be left alone in the building that five minutes earlier I was trusted to be in. My clearance level was top secret, and in a minute I had to be escorted out of this building, so it felt awful.