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Originally Posted by jayswin
The bolded line is ugly and unneeded. Legal immigrants being considered second class citizens (which is the only way to take that comment btw) is something we shouldn't be seeing in this country, it's extremely anti Canadian and I guarantee you there's lots of immigrants on CP that cringed reading that.
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I didn't mean it to come out that bad. My apologies if anyone was offended. What I was getting at was that Li was given access to all these services to help him and likely on the taxpayers dime (correct me if I'm wrong), while Tim's family received nothing and if they wanted help, it came out of their own pocket. That's what the mother was getting at, and IMO that's not fair at all.
My comment wasn't meant to be a shot at immigrants and I worded it very poorly. Again, I apologize. But rather it was a comment towards the lack of help offered to the victim's family. Meanwhile the guy who beheaded someone is put up on a silver platter as a poster child for mental health issues and seems to have gotten whatever medical services he needed to get better. As usual, the victim and their family are always the afterthought.
God forbid another terrible event happens similar to this where someone who is mentally ill causes harm to another person(s), once again the focus will be on the perpetrator and they help they need to get. And zilch for the victim and their families.
Edit: I see Mbates post above. It appears help is available. I do have some experience going through that process (in Alberta). 8 years ago my gf was viciously assaulted and had severe medical issues that happened from the assault. We applied to have those some of those services for her, in particular counselling sessions. What a struggle it was to get that help. No, it wasn't as easy as applying and next thing you know you're in treatment. It was pile after pile of paperwork, waiting, applying, more waiting. In the end, she got 2 counselling sessions out of it and a whole headache of dealing with paperwork, insurance companies who didn't give a crap about what happened, more waiting and being told time after time that she wasn't qualified to get certain services. 2 counselling sessions for getting the crap beat of her.
I'm not sure how it works for someone like Li or Degrood, but I can't imagine the process was that rigorous. Maybe their families do all the paperwork and waiting behind the scenes, I don't know. But I've heard of situations before where the victim's families say the help they receive is no where near enough compared to what the attacker gets.