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The dark road we're on with MAID is on the verge of turning pitch black
We are going down a very dark road. Just how dark and bleak and utterly wretched that road is remains to be seen, but the glimpses we are getting reveals it to be verging on the edge of pitch black.
Gauthier now makes at least six injured veterans who were asking for help from Veteran Affairs but instead got an offer of MAID.
Another former soldier on Thursday told MPs that the state of Veteran Affairs was “apocalyptic” and painted a picture of hopelessness.
Bruce Moncur had five per cent of his brain removed following an injury suffered in 2006 during Operation Medusa in Afghanistan, one of the deadliest operations in recent Canadian history.
“There’s a lot of frustration and futility that goes with trying to navigate through Veterans Affairs. And eventually it causes soldiers to lose hope and think about taking their lives. And it’s the triple D policy: delay, deny (and) dead veterans cost no money,” he told a parliamentary committee on veterans.
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We are going down a very dark road. Just how dark and bleak and utterly wretched that road is remains to be seen, but the glimpses we are getting reveals it to be verging on the edge of pitch black.
Gauthier now makes at least six injured veterans who were asking for help from Veteran Affairs but instead got an offer of MAID.
Another former soldier on Thursday told MPs that the state of Veteran Affairs was “apocalyptic” and painted a picture of hopelessness.
Bruce Moncur had five per cent of his brain removed following an injury suffered in 2006 during Operation Medusa in Afghanistan, one of the deadliest operations in recent Canadian history.
“There’s a lot of frustration and futility that goes with trying to navigate through Veterans Affairs. And eventually it causes soldiers to lose hope and think about taking their lives. And it’s the triple D policy: delay, deny (and) dead veterans cost no money,” he told a parliamentary committee on veterans.
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The dark road we're on with MAID is on the verge of turning pitch black
