Canadian Federal Government Class Action (Retired armed forces)

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  MsMcDucket

  I don't know if this is old news are not. If so, never mind!

  Canadian Federal Government

  A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Canadian Federal Government on behalf of retired armed forces members who were exposed to chemical and biological warfare experiments during their time on Canadian Forces bases. The nationwide class action lawsuit was filed at the Federal Court in Ottawa and names the Attorney General of Canada and the Minister of National Defence as defendants. The lawsuit claims retired armed forces personnel suffered injuries as a result of chemical and biological warfare compounds while they served at CFB Suffield in Alberta, CFB Wainwright or the Sarcee Training Camp in Alberta between 1941 and 1976, or served at CFB Petawawa or the Chemical Warfare Laboratory in Ontario between 1940 and 1945. It alleges vets experienced illness, disease, physical affliction, mental suffering, premature death, loss of companionship, reduced income and diminished quality of life due to illness, enhanced risk of future injury, as well as medical treatment, critical care and recovery expenses not otherwise covered.
  
  

  Register your Canadian Federal Government Complaint

  If you or a loved one has suffered damages in this warfare case, you may qualify for damages or remedies that may be awarded in a possible class action or lawsuit. Please click the link below to submit your complaint to a lawyer for a free evaluation, or call 1-866-886-5529 toll free.
  Click here to submit your complaint through a secure form
  to Merchant Law Group - Tony Merchant
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  RunningMan

  Notice the lawyer's name - T.M.? I live in the same city where he practices. He is well known as a parasite scum bag, who has been disbarred a few times.

  He's tried to stir up several class action suits that haven't gone any where. Lately, he has been famous for scooping up around $40 million in legal fees over the Indian Residential School suit, meaning that his firm made a few hundred times more money from the case than the victims.

  Say, he might be just the guy to champion a class action suit against the society.
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  MsMcDucket

  Here's another press release on the story.

  Veterans in chemical warfare tests suing Ottawa

  Last Updated: Thursday, November 9, 2006 | 2:16 PM CT

  CBC News

  A Saskatchewan man who says he was injured in Second World War chemical warfare experiments in Alberta is one of the lead claimants in a proposed class-action lawsuit against the federal government.

  Eighty-five-year-old Leonard Link of Saskatoon says he was in a group of soldiers who took part in tests of chlorine gas and mustard gas at a military base at Suffield, Alta., in 1942.

  Leonard Link, 85, says his life hasn't been the same since he was used in chemical warfare experiments in 1942.
  

  Link said the soldiers were put into a room, given masks and then chlorine gas was released.

  "Then the officer said, 'OK, boys. Stick your finger behind your mask and take a whiff of this stuff.' Which we did," Link said. "It just burned, as if it went right to your toes."

  Link said he has suffered a number of painful ailments ever since, including chronic skin blisters and a burned throat. He had a nervous breakdown and spent time in a Maple Creek hospital.

  The men were told not to say a word about what happened, and for decades, Link kept silent.

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  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2006/11/09/chemical.html
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  I quit!

  Link, 85, says his life hasn't been the same since he was used in chemical warfare experiments in 1942.

  Sounds like a class action scam to me. The guy mentioned above is 85. If this horrible thing really happend how come this guy is still around at that age. Most of these class action cases seem to include just about anything that can go wrong with a persons health. That way they can find something you have that they can blame on whoever it is they are suing.
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  MsMcDucket

  Sounds like a class action scam to me. The guy mentioned above is 85. If this horrible thing really happend how come this guy is still around at that age. Most of these class action cases seem to include just about anything that can go wrong with a persons health. That way they can find something you have that they can blame on whoever it is they are suing.

  You have to realize that the governments don't want to admit to doing anything harmful to the veterans until most of them are dead; this way they don't have to pay out as much. My husband was in the Agent Orange suit. People think that we got rich off of it. All the government paid him for being exposed to it and losing half his pelvis and entire leg was $500. a month for a year. He was one of the "fortunate" one (so to speak). He was still active duty when he became ill with cancer; so he was able to medically retire. Many veterans had to PROVE that their illnesses were caused by Agent Orange in order to get service connection.

  It's just like the US government admitting that they did use soldiers as guinea pigs for radiation exposure studies after most of them had died.
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  MsMcDucket

  Here's a story about US Veterans and radiation:

  Veterans' Nuclear Exposure Underestimated, Panel Says

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  By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: May 9, 2003

  Some soldiers, sailors and aviators who developed cancer from exposure to radiation from 1945 to 1962 were denied compensation because the Pentagon grossly underestimated their doses, a panel of independent scientists said today.

  For a majority of veterans who took part in cold war nuclear tests or were in Japan near Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the underestimation does not matter because ''ionizing radiation is not a potent cause of cancer,'' said the panel, which was convened by the National Academy of Sciences at the request of Congress.

  Read the rest at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9400E3D8173FF93AA35756C0A9659C8B63&n=Top%2fNews%2fHealth%2fDiseases%2c%20Conditions%2c%20and%20Health%20Topics%2fCancer