Health committee  I'm not sure if Health Canada has been made aware of them, but these are all things that are listed in medical journals, one published in 1963, I believe, that stated a lot of the different conditions that can occur with thalidomide. However, in 1963, when they did this, that was

Health committee  Are you referring to this recently...? Or do you mean what we've had to deal with all our lives?

Health committee  All our lives, we've been left out. We've been denied organized sports, because the people who run those sorts of things were afraid we'd get hurt if we played. In terms of jobs, I'm not bragging or anything, but I have quite an education, and I have gone for jobs that I know I

Health committee  I'm not sure if anybody has changed the criteria yet. I would like to see the genetic testing included, and I would also insist on a physical examination, because you can't diagnose something from a piece of paper.

Health committee  Well, I have suggested it to Crawford, to which they just basically said that “this is what the government gave us, this is what we've got to stick to, and we ain't changing it”.

Health committee  It was right after I received my rejection letter.

Health committee  It would have been in approximately mid-June of last year, 2016.

Health committee  As I said before, in 1991, I was made aware of this thalidomide program. To be honest with you, at the time I didn't even know what thalidomide was. I went to my mother and asked her, and she said, “Terry, I told you that when you were born, you were born that way, and you were a

Health committee  I wouldn't want to speculate, but from what I've heard, and judging by the way I grew up and tried to basically hide this, I believe that there are a lot more than 400 of us out there. As to whether they're still living or not, that's the other issue. For this Wolff-Parkinson-W

Health committee  They're afraid to come forward.

Health committee  I personally did not because, as I've stated before, at that time, I was still under the impression that this “just happened”.

Health committee  I was able to present Crawford a photocopy. I still have the hard copy with me right now. It is right from the registry at Kingston's Hotel Dieu Hospital. It states right on there that I was born with a deformed left arm and an extra digit that was removed right at birth. I still

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  No. As of yet, I have not.

Health committee  If I could come up with the money to afford it, yes, I would be more than happy to have a genetic test.