Veterans Affairs committee  There are no services at all for homeless veterans on Vancouver Island—zero—especially for people who have children and are homeless. We don't qualify for those social housing projects. In places like Vancouver or Vancouver Island, if you ask anybody who is homeless, everybody's

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a pride thing with veterans: we don't want to ask for help.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're supposed to provide the help.

Veterans Affairs committee  Correct.

Veterans Affairs committee  The 1st Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.

Veterans Affairs committee  Afghanistan, from 2010 to 2011.

Veterans Affairs committee  We had just moved to Kabul. I was involved in the incident where Master Cpl. Greff, from 3rd Battalion, was killed.

Veterans Affairs committee  The contract that I signed with the Canadian Forces was to end at the end of 2016. My release paperwork came through the medical side and said, “You are going to be released on February 16.” I said, “That's unacceptable. My contract to serve was over at the end of 2016 anyway. I

Veterans Affairs committee  I suffered a head injury, complex post-traumatic stress and occupational stress injury. I'll still say it today—we're the plague. When we ask for help as acting, serving members, we become the plague, and nobody wants to be around us. I was shuffled into a corner, into an office,

Veterans Affairs committee  I could have served in a different capacity. Maybe not in my specific trade, but I could have moved over to a combat support role easily.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't believe I didn't meet the universality of service. Being put in a temporary category and then being moved to a permanent medical category, I had no opportunity or option to get off the permanent category. Once you're placed on a permanent category, it is impossible to ge

Veterans Affairs committee  Permanent category means that you're permanently impaired. To prove that you're not permanently impaired is virtually impossible in the military medical system. I was provided no opportunity to do so, even though I was having treatment regularly and was meeting my obligations th

Veterans Affairs committee  I could still pick up a rifle.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  Sorry.