Veterans Affairs committee  It was a question they didn't want to ask.

Veterans Affairs committee  No. I became a client while I was in the hospital, and then I went on a voluntary rehab course in Belleville, Ontario. It wasn't the vet-sponsored one. It was a fairly tough one—a kick in the ass when I needed it. From there I started completing all the paperwork, and I was assig

Veterans Affairs committee  After 14 years I got my first case manager, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I just want to follow up quickly with that. I start school in September, and the day I start I have two years. I don't know what's going to happen to me in the next two years. I don't know how I'm going to react in public. I'm anxious and I want to go to school, but there shouldn

Veterans Affairs committee  The only time I really had it was in Petawawa and at my first post in Borden, where I was with the school and when I was with a service battalion, because we were very tight. When you're constantly on exercise working with people you know, you know how they tie their shoes. Then,

Veterans Affairs committee  Not as a private. As a private, you fall into a navy base where you have.... The rules are completely crazy compared to an army base. You can't wear work dress off base. If I got dropped off at the base hospital, which was off base, I had to Star Trek my ass over to the base or

Veterans Affairs committee  Only after my accident. It was a single-car accident. I was by myself. I had left the barracks. I don't even remember the accident because I have a scar here and I had a concussion. I just woke up in the hospital the next day. There were no cell phones. I had to find a bus to ge

Veterans Affairs committee  No. I went to Petawawa where drinking was part and parcel of showing your manliness. It is what it is. Friday afternoon was always a beer call in the MWO's office.

Veterans Affairs committee  That was an O group. That's where a lot more information was passed on than you could ever get out of anything. That was just part of the operation.

Veterans Affairs committee  It teaches you how to be a functioning alcoholic, where you can get up and be functional at 6 a.m. I turned that into a career, a career where, because I was a contractor, my drinking could go unchecked. In fact, they prefer it if you're drinking, because you don't realize what y

Veterans Affairs committee  Informal home health care.

Veterans Affairs committee  I am.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's not the point I'm trying to get at, though.

Veterans Affairs committee  When a vet is in crisis, the 911 system that works for civilians doesn't work for the military. I'll give a clear example. I walked into the base Borden VAC office to get the disability claim I submitted in September 2015, and in fact I had a meltdown. I was angry and the woman

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not the only one.