Canadian soldiers help a comrade, center, get on a helicopter after he was injured in an IED blast during a patrol outside Salavat, in the Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, June 7, 2010.
The country's military ombudsman says efforts by the Department of National Defence to get care and treatment for former language and cultural advisers who worked with Canadian soldiers during the Afghan war have been "inadequate or nonexistent."Canadian soldiers help a comrade, centre, get on a helicopter after he was injured in an IED blast during a patrol outside Salavat in Panjwayi district southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan on June 7, 2010.
Because they were contract employees, the advisers were not eligible for the federal benefits available to soldiers — even though some of them spent more time on combat operations than many Canadian soldiers who served in-theater. But the wounds suffered by the advisers in a war zone, Lick said, bear no resemblance to civilian workplace mishaps or bones broken at home.
Just as CBC News was about to publish a report on the rejected claims, the board agreed to take a second look at the cases. "We are working as quickly and thoroughly as possible," Christine Arnott, WSIB public affairs manager, told CBC News. But Lick argues the advisers as a group present unique circumstances that aren't comparable to those of other injured federal employees and the federal government owes them a duty."Additionally, our office has read many of the WSIB's decisions. While I do not have the mandate to review or assess the fairness of WSIB decisions, it appears that their system was not designed to deal with employees in positions similar to those held by the language and cultural advisers.
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