Veterans Affairs committee  No, it was as part of the retirement for medical reasons and army discharge process.

Veterans Affairs committee  My pleasure.

Veterans Affairs committee  Because, plain and simple, it's policy. I can feed myself, dress myself and bathe myself. For those reasons, I don't qualify for the disability tax credit either—it's the exact same reasons. It discriminates against cognitive injuries, meaning brain injuries, and this is my fourt

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair—

Veterans Affairs committee  Hello?

Veterans Affairs committee  I have about 20 minutes before I have to pick up my kids from school. I am three hours earlier in the day, so unfortunately I have that constraint.

Veterans Affairs committee  I cannot speak of when I retired because I can't remember, but it is a bureaucratic nightmare for any aspect of dealing with VA, more so.... It's hard if you lose a leg, an arm, or any part of your body and then have to deal with that, but it's even harder when your injury is cog

Veterans Affairs committee  My wife is my caregiver. She has been my caregiver ever since I met her, to be honest, because I got diagnosed in 2010 and I met my wife in 2008. I got diagnosed in Comox when I got posted there. I was shelved because I was damaged goods for the army. That's the ugly truth. COV

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I've been advocating for four years.

Veterans Affairs committee  Because I have no memory.

Veterans Affairs committee  The caregiver allowance, because it is discriminatory against guys like me who have cognitive injuries.

Veterans Affairs committee  Essentially, just to save time for other members who might wonder, I can feed myself, dress myself and bathe myself, which are the base criteria for the caregiver allowance. However, I've been denied three times, I think, so far, maybe four. I can't remember anymore. The fact is

Veterans Affairs committee  I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder as well. I forgot that one.

Veterans Affairs committee  It does and it doesn't. The way it doesn't is that I lived in a war zone, in prison essentially, the base, for nine months, and all my movements were controlled. It's just part of life in the army. In that sense, no, it doesn't. Where it does is when it impacts my treatment.