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Veterans Affairs committee  Thanks. I'm honoured. I'm just speaking my mind and speaking from the heart.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  No, we're going to Resolute Bay. We fly in there on the 16th. We're there for a day to acclimatize and then we're cross-country skiing. Some guys are snowshoeing—I have no idea why—but we're cross-country skiing to the North Pole.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  A recce was just done. Apparently it's okay. There was a reconnaissance mission and it's good.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  Soldiers, yes. There are about 51 of us in total composing the entire expedition.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  If you invite me back, I'll share it, absolutely.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  No, no. This is entirely through True Patriot Love. I've already accumulated some of the prosthetics and the gear over my recovery period. For example, we were skiing at Calabogie a couple of weeks ago. This is my third year of skiing so I already have the technology and then bei

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  I need nothing more than what I make now. I don't need to be a millionaire just because I'm missing a leg or anything. I'm happy with what I have. I don't worry about what I don't have anymore.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  There are a couple of points on that, because as I mentioned with my own renovations, I paid about $70,000. So, yes, that's a little more than my year's salary, and it was within the first year and a half, almost two years, after my injury that I had to start paying that out. So

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  While you're still using the $76,000.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  The other point to that is that some of my other peers took their maximum payout all at once and they decided to build a home for themselves. You know what? That's totally fine. You can go and build yourself a home, but spending $400,000 or $425,000 on it.... I don't know. That's

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  So I'm happy to have just bought a $250,000 home and paid $75,000 to renovate it.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, because that is ridiculous.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. I think it's ridiculous that there is a barrier between the two elements. It's like the left hand not talking to the right. It is the same body. It's for veterans coming from an organization that promotes veterans. It's the government, right?

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen

Veterans Affairs committee  You can request a copy.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Sgt Bjarne Nielsen