Terrible story of a woman who lost her son and her leg, the Canadian Forces decided she was on duty at the time, but are refusing to pay for her leg.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4753763/k...rosthetic-leg/
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Air Force Capt. Kimberly Fawcett served her country, deploying twice to Afghanistan as a part of Canada’s war effort.
Now Fawcett is fighting her own government, asking the military to pay for a prosthetic limb, after she lost her leg in an accident that wounded her critically and killed her nine-month-old son, Keiran.
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A summary investigation ordered by the military found that, although Fawcett was not at her place of duty at the time of the accident, she was “’going about a matter related (directly) to service in the Canadian Forces’ (Ref E para 29) in that both travel to her son’s daycare and then to the base were required activities to enable her to perform her military duties at work.”
The investigating officer continued that Fawcett “… should be considered on duty from the time she left home in uniform, as her activities were all in support of carrying out her military duties.”
That finding was overturned by one of Fawcett’s commanding officers who determined she was not on duty despite the findings of the summary investigation.
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I guess she could go directly to veteran's affairs minister Seamus O'Reagan but he's too busy telling people that leaving his high paying job as a media person is somehow the same as a veteran leaving the military and dealing with injuries and PTSD.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ore...tion-1.4939878