Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's been going on for eight years. It's incredibly painful, in terms of the amount of time it takes for a case to go through. I had to do a lot of the background work. I had to put the case together by going through access to information. With the evidence I gathered when I was in the military and being abused by them....

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. Everything is tied into trying to prove what happened and collecting evidence about what happened during my service. All the access to information requests would be working towards—

Veterans Affairs committee  As I mentioned to Sean Casey, for people to be able to go directly to the Human Rights Commission is a good thing. The stuff that's happening now, with things being removed from the military, is very helpful, because there have been a lot of issues of victims' cases being fumbled or mishandled and the evidence not being produced properly.

Veterans Affairs committee  Can you repeat the question?

Veterans Affairs committee  I've been hearing from some friends who are currently enlisted that it is a lot better than it used to be in terms of their acknowledging that it's not right and how new members are being trained. However, there are still issues in terms of women and men going through basic training and getting sexually assaulted, which is not acceptable and shouldn't happen.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  It was a good experience in terms of being able to serve veterans. I found there were issues with the medical documentation that was coming out of the Canadian Armed Forces, which has its own medical system, separate from the rest of Canada's. There were issues with veterans saying they had certain service-related conditions that were not documented in the record.

Veterans Affairs committee  There's vomiting. If I'm activated with PTSD, I have bits of working memory. I have issues with body pains. I relive the trauma. There are physical issues and there are sexual and reproductive health issues. I guess body pain would be a big one. I also have migraine issues. It's very difficult to get the consequential issues diagnosed, because it's like a situation of....

Veterans Affairs committee  Cut down on the amount of bureaucracy that is present in order to make it user-friendly for the women seeking services. Some of the women I work with as a social worker have musculoskeletal or physical issues from the abuse. They don't want to go through the medical processes, because it's so tedious to prove the injury is military service-related.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would have been sexually assaulted less. I would have had less abuse. It wouldn't have been so bad for me if there had been an outside reporting mechanism. It was also very bad because when I went to the police and asked them for help, they told me they couldn't help me. It put me back into the situation where I was dealing with my abusers.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think I'm okay. I'm sorry about that.

Veterans Affairs committee  The rationale VAC gave me was that it was a social issue as opposed to a medical issue. I'm pensioned for severe PTSD. Sometimes I have a vomiting condition. I'll vomit and can't complete.... I'll vomit all day long. They denied me a support person and said I would have to call the ambulance if I were to have a PTSD attack.

Veterans Affairs committee  For the incidents that occurred, they did not make a report in writing because during the time whenever.... I had three sexual assaults that had been investigated by civilian police. The civilian police have confirmed that a definite sexual assault happened on January 23, 2015.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. That would be an issue. I have a Human Rights Tribunal case. As soon as I complained about the sexual harassment, they just continued to harass me and they tried to take administrative measures against my career. They did not want me to become a social work officer because I was adamant about this type of behaviour not being appropriate.