Veterans Affairs committee  I'd like to bring up one point: Lionel Desmond actually was on mefloquine on his deployment. We've ascertained—we've proven—that on the day of his incident when he killed his family he was having a mefloquine-related incident, as described by his sister, who was the last person t

Veterans Affairs committee  No, it's actually a degenerative issue and the people are becoming more ill.

Veterans Affairs committee  What we run into is that mefloquine doesn't neatly fall into a box. It actually straddles four or five diagnoses. Veterans Affairs doesn't like that. They like their nice little tidy boxes. This is the same issue that we had with PTSD and Agent Orange, where the driver for chang

Veterans Affairs committee  I have no faith in the government actually stepping up and acknowledging this. I've actually had to write that off. My sole focus is reaching veterans individually. We've been talking about transition for 10 years. You can pull the reports out of the archives. A friend of mine d

Veterans Affairs committee  —so they can order another study and do another study?

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, every country in the western world is balking at this because of the financial cost of the extended health care associated with people who have been poisoned by mefloquine.

Veterans Affairs committee  There's one thing. We need someone to stand up in the House and say, “We may have poisoned our soldiers.” That's it. Then what will happen from there is the provincial health care systems, and the funding agencies for research.... Because right now funding agencies will not give

Veterans Affairs committee  Do you really want me to do that?

Veterans Affairs committee  I was court-martialled and kicked out. I was given a 5(f) release, the bad one. The individual responsible for that was a Colonel Jorgensen. He's now General Jorgensen and works at VA. I had the unit padre trying to stand up for me. I even heard him. I was at the duty desk. He wa

Veterans Affairs committee  Originally, OSISS was an entity unto itself. It has now been taken over by Veterans Affairs, and it's mandate is directed by Veterans Affairs. OSISS at one time had its own budget. OSISS was extremely effective back then at saving lives. Now it's handcuffed by Veterans Affairs.

Veterans Affairs committee  Is Teresa going to talk?

Veterans Affairs committee  Hello. I'll begin by explaining what I've been doing since the last time I testified. Directly as a result of the media attention I received the last time I testified, a lot of people have been reaching out to me. In this past year and a bit, I've talked to well over 100 vetera

Veterans Affairs committee  I was with 3 Commando. I wasn't present in the compound. I was in a different compound. I became aware of the—well, obviously. My involvement with the Matchee family started with the courts martial that went on in Saskatchewan after we came back. I would go to the courts martial

Veterans Affairs committee  I've got one more point I'd like to bring up. I attempted to track my platoon down from Somalia, 9 Platoon 3 Commando. I was able to account for 10 soldiers. Of those 28 soldiers deployed, two have committed suicide, six have attempted suicide, and there's only one soldier who