Veterans Affairs committee  That's a great question. You have peer outreach.

Veterans Affairs committee  And they're only getting more.

Veterans Affairs committee  I thought it was important because there have been recent studies saying that almost half of Canadian Forces personnel have suffered at some point from child abuse. Being a survivor of it, I thought it was important for you to realize that. As well, the depression rate is much hi

Veterans Affairs committee  Spin dry is a course. If you get into any trouble with alcohol, you're sent away to it. I believe it was held in Kingston or something like that. There are probably various locations.

Veterans Affairs committee  An MP would have much better information on spin dry, because he's—

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not saying he did, but he has probably sent a lot of people there. Or he has reported—

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, their CO, as based on his report. It's a course that you go on to quit alcohol. If you get into serious trouble with alcohol in the forces, you go on a spin dry. I don't know the official course name, but everyone knows it as spin dry.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, alcohol awareness.

Veterans Affairs committee  It is. If you as a corporal get sent on a spin dry course, you're going to be a career corporal.

Veterans Affairs committee  I made very bad irrational decisions based on my injuries.

Veterans Affairs committee  No. They were so quick to get me out. I was still on leave and I was in Kosovo. I was still effectively in the Canadian Armed Forces when I was destroying cluster bombs. The problem is that it happened so fast that I didn't even realize what I had done.

Veterans Affairs committee  The second plan.

Veterans Affairs committee  No. It was the tail end. It was in 2000, but it was still at the tail end of the last FRP.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are. Actually, I can list them by name, two of the guys I've lost. One of them is Jacques Richaud, who died in Iraq. He was a Canadian ammo tech. Paul Straughn is still in Libya right now. You're afraid to come home because you don't know what you have. I've now said, in t

Veterans Affairs committee  It all comes down to the word “suicide”. It's a scary word. I'm not afraid of it. I'm actually quite lucky. I feel like someone who has diabetes, or a heart condition, or a kidney condition and knows it. I have a certain condition where, under the exact correct circumstances, I