READ: Canadian Veteran Writes Open Letter, Gives Trudeau An ‘F’ On Broken Personal Pledge

“Not only have you failed to deliver, you and your various ministers have actually made things worse,” writes Retired RCAF Captain Medric Cousineau.

Medric “Cous” Cousineau, a retired Captain in the Royal Canadian Air Force, has written an open letter to Justin Trudeau in relation to a pledge Trudeau made to him before the 2015 election.

That letter can be read below:

“Dear Prime Minister Trudeau. 

I find myself forced to write this letter to you, which I will also be providing copies of to the media. I am also enclosing a picture that was taken of us at our meeting while you were the leader of the opposition. You pledged to get support for service dogs for disabled veterans battling PTSD. So I think it is only fair that we discuss the results of your personal pledge to me. Since you were formally a teacher, I will make this very easy. Your grade? An “F”.  In fact if there was a grade worse then you and your regime would qualify. Not only have you failed to deliver, you and your various ministers have actually made things worse. 

In  April of 2018, Seamus O’Regan stood before the House of Commons and pledged delivery of National Service Dog Standards by last Fall. Yet they are not even being worked upon. Now several bureaucrats including DM Natynczyk will offer up all kinds of excuses as to why they are not in situ. In fact his first line of defense will be blame the Canadian General Standards Board. However, what he will not show you is the correspondence from the months leading up to the implosion, that laid out exactly how that trainwreck would end and he stood idly by and took no steps to intervene or keep the process moving forward. 

Then there is the issue of the Medical Expense Tax Credit for Psych Service Dogs. I should never have had to wage the kind of war to get your government to stop discriminating on the basis of the nature of my disability.  Thanks in no part to the co-operation of your government, you begrudingly ammended the Tax code so that we could achieve equality. No more, no less. It is a very simple concept. Violating Citizens Human Rights should be avoided at all costs. Yet here we are and VAC is still doing it. A year ago, on the second of May 2018 I met with Seamus, at his behest and we discussed things like equality and not violating my Human Rights. Yet it continues, and despite assurances that the issue would be resolved in the last budget, nothing happened. You see, veterans with a guide dog are eligible for a care and upkeep allowance for their service animal. Yet, we psych Service Dog handlers are denied the same. (To make it easy on the staffers, VAC Benefit 625995 refers). I have filed a Human Rights Complaint against your government naming the DM in the complaint. Darest I say if I was one of your favoured causes, this mess would have been fixed years ago. It has dragged on since the Harper Regime and it was one of the things you pledged to fix. Given the spate of “he said- she said” events I am glad there were others both in that meeting and in caucus when I was invited there at your behest. Sadly it has come to this. 

However, this next part is going to strain the bounds of credulity, and thankfully I have it recorded. No it was not some surreptious recording where somebody or somebodies is driving an agenda. Mine is much more straight forward and damning. What I have is a copy of a voicemail. Since it was left in my Voicemail box, it would be my property and since the other party knew it was a voicemail, knows he was being recorded.