"Lionel Desmond had access to the best care at this time," Ward said. As well, she drove Desmond to the airport for that trip and, at one point, met with him in person during her vacation. Ward said Doucette made special requests to ensure Desmond received funding to cover the cost of travel for an intensive treatment program at Ste. Doucette, Ward said, made every effort to help him deal with stress by using compassion and empathy, even though the case manager had a heavy workload. Ward drew attention to the work of Veterans Affairs employee Marie-Paule Doucette, who was appointed as Desmond’s case manager once he left the military. He was medically released from the army in July 2015 after receiving four years of treatment. "There's a narrative that is perpetuated about an uncaring bureaucracy."ĭesmond served in Afghanistan as an infantryman in 2007 and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression in 2011. "It would be so easy to lay everything at the feet of Veterans Affairs," she said in her final submission to the inquiry, which was expected to conclude public hearings on Wednesday.
Lori Ward told the inquiry it would be wrong to blame the federal department for the deaths of Lionel Desmond his 31-year-old wife, Shanna their 10-year-old daughter, Aaliyah and Desmond's 52-year-old mother, Brenda. A Nova Scotia inquiry investigating why a former Afghanistan war veteran killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Tuesday from a federal lawyer who defended the work of Veterans Affairs Canada.
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