is expected to make the announcement Friday morning alongside retired General Rick Hillier.
“The men and women who serve in uniform are heroes and they defend freedom abroad, and they also help with natural disasters here in Ontario and across the country,” McNaughton said. Officials say that of the 40,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, nearly one in seven developed a mental injury as a result of their deployment.
In addition, the Ontario government is also proposing regulations that would allow reservists to be respond to domestic emergencies such as search and rescue operations and natural disasters such as floods or ice storms immediately rather than waiting until their months-long employment probationary period is over.
Shouldn't this have been done like 50 years ago?