Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke of compassion after the CFB Wainwright fire. “We stand in solidarity and compassion” with the wounded, he said, and in the House of Commons he pointed to the “acts of compassion that testify to the acts of service, selflessness and patriotism that our Armed Forces perform every day.”
“There can be a disconnect between compassion and bureaucracy when they bump into each other,” cautions retired Brig.-Gen. Alan Mulawyshyn. After 40 years in the Canadian Armed Forces — serving along the Iraq/Kuwait border, in Kosovo, and in Kandahar — he now heads Veterans’ House Canada, the non-profit that houses and supports homeless veterans.
