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“Will he ever find peace here on this earth, before death's finger's encircle his throat? Or will peace remain just beyond his girth? Abandoning him eternally to a land remote.” Many people believe that the government, and the military have been the reason for mass discrimination/bad treatment towards injured soldiers. The Canadian Armed Forces have been instrumental in promoting peace for the last 50 years. However, there have been issues internally with how the soldiers are treated. These complications are: A compensation for the families of the fallen soldiers, the treatment of the mentally challenged soldiers after war, and, the liability that the government feel they have for the wounded soldiers.
The “Veteran Charter of Rights” holds many rules and policies. Under the old charter, “if a soldier was killed, their surviving family members would get a payment that was two times the amount that the soldiers would get paid annually. This payment was meant to help the family with the costs of the funeral. But Veteran Affairs decided to change this policy, back in March of 2004. In order for this change to become official, the government had to rewrite the definition of “a surviving family member”. This new policy states that “when a married soldier is killed, their spouse gets a payment of $250,000 in order for them to adjust better to civilian life.” The reason that this is so controversial is because soldiers that are single don't get this “privilege”. A complaint was sent to the human rights watchdog, almost a year after a boy was killed in Afghanistan in April of 2006. The policy was described as “discriminatory”, and evidence was provided that “more than half of the 146 soldiers killed in Afghanistan in one year were single. The family of this young boy asked for an apology to the families of single soldiers, and asked that the benefit be changed.” The terrible thing about this case is the Veteran Affairs reply. They argue that “they don't have an...