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In an interview with The Canadian Press, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan said the four medical conditions that will now be evaluated when people apply are attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, asthma and allergies. Carignan said previously any appli- cants that arrived with an allergy were immediately disqualified. “Nowadays, with the technology available to us, that might not be the case unless you have a very, very se- vere case of allergy that within the trade or, you know, operational fields that you are choosing, you may not have access to the medical support to allow you to, you know, to proceed,” she said. Carignan said the changes to the mil- itary’s entry medical standards came into effect in January. “We need to understand that things that are diagnosed now were not diag- nosed many years ago,” Carignan said, adding that diagnostic tools are “a lot more sophisticated” than they were 30 or 40 years ago. “It’s adapting to the en- vironment of today while also exercis- ing risk management.” Given how recently the changes were made, Carignan said “it will take a little while” to see their impact. However, several other changes have already made “a big difference” in terms of offers and intake of future members of the CAF, she said. For example, Carignan said the mil- itary changed rules around security last fall, with new members no longer need- ing to have the same level of security. “Instead of having a bottleneck right at the front and having people wait for a longer period of time, we on-board them and then we keep working on the security level as not everybody needs to have a top-secret clearance as they join for recruit training,” Carignan said. Carignan said the CAF has also worked on “digitizing” and “modern- izing” its tools for recruiters to better manage files and ensure people coming in are tracked. There is constant com- munication to “humanize the process.” In the wide-ranging interview, Carignan also discussed the CAF’s goals of building a diverse force, sexual misconduct, its involvement in wild- fires and emergency response and Can- ada’s relationship with the U.S. military, which she said is “extremely strong.” According to data provided by the Canadian Armed Forces, the popula- tion of the force as of late last year was 87,638 compared to the target of 101,500. For the past several years, Carignan said the CAF has only been able to reach about 60-65 per cent of its recruitment target. Within only a few months of making changes to its enrolment pro- cess, she said the force is already just above the 80 per cent mark. “I’m cautiously optimistic that we will be able to reach the target this year,” Carignan said. “There is a lot of interest out there, it’s about now con- verting this interest in(to) actual offers and selection for Canadians who come to our door to join the CAF.” The chief of the defence staff said the organization is looking at a recruitment target of around 6,500 for the year and is above the 5,000 mark “with a lot of other files ready to be processed.” “We’re on the right track to achieve our target,” Carignan said, noting that, on the reserves side, more recruitment is still needed. “We want to make sure that Canadians understand that their military needs them.” Carignan said the CAF’s rate of at- trition is also “very healthy” at about eight or nine per cent. She said the or- ganization is working to improve reten- tion, especially at the middle-manage- ment level, by providing members with career opportunities, prioritizing work- life balance and supporting families with childcare and access to housing. However military data suggest less than one-third of military personnel feel that the military “provides a rea- sonable quality of life for service mem- bers and their families.” Carignan said the retention rate is be- ing monitored very closely with a goal of exceeding the existing personnel tar- get by 2032 because Canada will need “additional members of the CAF to operate the brand new capabilities that are coming to us in the next few years.” Christian Leuprecht, a professor at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, said it makes sense for the CAF to be flexible and adjust its re- quirements to be able to make up for significant staffing shortfalls and to provide equality of opportunity for Canadians looking to serve. “The organization is what, 15,000 members short, I think at last count, so that’s gonna require some compromise because there’s only so many unicorns out there,” Leuprecht said. “Broadly speaking, if someone is able to aptly perform a military occupation, why would we turn them away?” Leuprecht said different standards have always been in place for different types of occupational groups, noting the military continues to employ many members injured in the line of duty though they wouldn’t qualify with those injuries if they applied off the street. “I don’t see this seriously compromis- ing the military’s ability to perform in its task given that we always think every military member needs to able to be an infanteer down in a trench somewhere ... Most military members perform tasks that require extremely talented people that just couldn’t serve in the trench for any host of reasons,” he said. “Every- body’s facing workforce constraints, and other employers have adjusted their expectations and do so regularly and so the military does as well. “The aptitudes that you need in a sol- dier today are not necessarily the same ones you needed 10 or 20 years ago.” — The Canadian Press CATHERINE MORRISON JUSTIN TANG / THE CANADIAN PRESS Afghan-Canadian advisers deserve compensation, military watchdog says OTTAWA — They were the eyes and ears of Canadian soldiers on the ground in the Afghanistan war, but a decade on many are still hitting a wall of bureaucracy as they try to ac- cess the kind of health benefits avail- able to soldiers. Now, a military watchdog is calling on Ottawa to financially compensate the dozens of Afghan Canadians who went to Afghanistan as government contractors to advise soldiers and translate for them, and who experi- enced mental and physical distress as a result of that service. Abdul Hamid Hamidi, 62, served as a cultural and language adviser for the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012. He said he remembers going to get a basket when a mortar exploded some 200 metres away from him — hitting the spot where he had been standing earlier — before several more landed. “I just lied down on the floor, hoping nothing was going to hit me,” he said. “I witnessed so many of these in- cidents because I was in the middle of a fire zone. Every one of us was going out in the field, facing danger on a daily basis.” He described witnessing graphic scenes such as suicide bombings and later reliving the memories, trig- gering a flood of anxiety and night- mares. He said he believes the federal gov- ernment abandoned him. “There’s no recognition. Absolutely nothing. Just, ‘Welcome home and go take care of yourself,’” he said. Robyn Hynes, interim ombud for the Department of National Defence, said in her new report that the fed- eral government failed in its duty to advisers like Hamidi. Hynes said that Ottawa should or- der independent assessments and determine on a case-by-case basis if former advisers need compensa- tion after they were denied benefits for years to treat such conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder. “There were systemic failures at multiple points in the employment of the (advisers) and in post-employ- ment care,” she said. Ottawa hired 81 of these advisers to work from 2006 to 2014 in Afghan- istan on deployments outside the safe zones of military bases. Denis Thompson, a retired major general who served in Kandahar, said the advisers were invaluable. “When you’re driving through the streets of Kandahar City and you’re scanning your horizon, looking out on the street, they would pick up on things that we wouldn’t because it’s not our backyard,” he said. “It’s not like Brockville, Ont. It’s more like you’re on the surface of Mars — it’s that alien to us.” “The war in Afghanistan was a counter-insurgency war and there is no front line in a counter-insurgency. So the instant you leave a base … you’re basically exposed,” Thomp- son said. “They’re carrying the same risks as Canadian soldiers.” According to Hynes’ report and Hamidi’s first-hand account, the ad- visers were given minimal training before being deployed and their work conditions turned out to be not as ad- vertised. They believed they would remain in the relative safety of Kandahar Airfield, not wearing fatigues and dodging shrapnel from improvised explosive devices. After the advisers returned from their deployments, their health was not tracked by the Department of National Defence and they received little if any help navigating the bureaucracy after their PTSD symp- toms emerged. Many are still being denied access to benefits and supports for mental and physical problems stemming from their service because as civil- ians they aren’t covered by the same policies that cover military mem- bers. “The federal government made a commitment to these employees when they hired them,” Hynes said. “They sent them overseas, they de- ployed them outside the wire, they put them in harm’s way, and then when they came back, they found themselves unable to access the care and benefits that they needed.” Her office has been raising this issue with the federal government for years. The advisers have sought legal redress and held several pro- tests last year trying to draw atten- tion to their plight. But while Defence Minister Bill Blair has pledged support, Ottawa has so far failed to act. Ottawa’s response to former advis- ers seeking compensation has been to direct them to the Ontario Work- place Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). Many advisers say they’ve struggled and failed to get the prov- incial bureaucracy to advance their claims. Of all the WSIB claims filed by for- mer advisers, only three led to finan- cial compensation and 13 qualified for some level of health-care bene- fits, Hynes said. Blair’s written response to the re- port said he “regret(s) the injuries that several” suffered due to their deployments and the department now has measures in place limiting civilian deployment time. But Hynes said Blair’s response to her recommendations left her “very unclear” about how Ottawa’s plan for the advisers will “meet the spirit” of her recommendations. She called her report her last op- tion to spur the government into action. “I was hoping that clearly lay- ing out the evidence, showing the timeline, showing the policy gaps — I really hoped that would prompt action, but I would note that there’s no requirement for the government to follow the recommendations made by our office,” she said. — The Canadian Press KYLE DUGGAN ‘It’s adapting to the environment of today while also exercising risk management’ — Gen. Jennie Carignan , Chief of the Defence Staff ;