Veterans Affairs committee  As my colleague, I would like to thank you for your work, dear members. It's not a simple thing. We're always going to have to fight for something. However, as I said earlier, the current problem affecting veterans, both men and women, has to do with transition. There has to be

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't think VAC cares about the people in the class action. I was thrown from one person to the other. The reason I was thrown from one to the other was that I already had PTSD from my previous accidents and crash. Because I had PTSD already, I wasn't allowed anything in the c

Veterans Affairs committee  By “make it better”, do you mean to go to the class action...?

Veterans Affairs committee  As I said, it's my psychiatrist who takes care of that. I sit with him; he writes it down, and he sends reports. What could they do? They won't do anything differently from what they do with other PTSDs. They have a special team. When the class action opened, people who were in.

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay. I'll make it short. When I released from the military, when I was kicked out because of my medical condition, it was for my knee, a physical condition. At that time, I didn't know that I had PTSD. I found out later that I had PTSD, because things were really bad in my life

Veterans Affairs committee  For the LGBTQ2+ veterans or those still serving, I would think that the government would have to put in a support group and let these people know there are groups that exist. For the veterans, it will be pretty hard to go to these people, because they were hurt so badly. They we

Veterans Affairs committee  It was 425.

Veterans Affairs committee  OSISS is an organization within National Defence for veterans who suffer from PTSD. It's all across Canada. OSISS is all across Canada. I think OSISS is the name in English, but I don't know. We call it OSISS in French too.

Veterans Affairs committee  You have to be a veteran to be working within OSISS. They wouldn't support the LGBTQ people.

Veterans Affairs committee  If you go back a few years, even in my time, in 1990, when there was the purge, there was no transition for these people. They were kicked out. They were kicked out so badly that they didn't have a good release because they were gay. Today, I don't think the problem has been re

Veterans Affairs committee  I will speak for veterans—the ones who came out after this ordeal, the ones who got help from Veterans Affairs. I will speak for them. These women, even the men.... There were a lot of gay men too. Veterans Affairs has to have support for them. A couple of years ago, some went

Veterans Affairs committee  Again, this was one of my fights, because the accident happened in 1988 at Bagotville. Following the accident, I had a surgery done at Valcartier in Quebec, the military base, so everything was documented in my files. When I put in a claim at VAC for the deconditioning of my lef

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, and it's even more true in the case of francophones.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I deal with a lot of francophone veterans in Quebec. I certainly don't meet any outside Quebec. There's no doubt that a female veteran who leaves the forces and has to apply for benefits under Veterans Affairs Canada programs will come after a male veteran.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, in 2023. I've experienced it myself.