Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/critics-question-general-dynamics-500k-contribution-to-military-mental-health-research-centre-1.2144469#ixzz3LhY4vs5J
Sounds legitimate but then here is a little round the horn manipulation.... follow the hoax...
CM Nancy Some background info of importance - The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group will become home to NATO’s first research chair in military mental health, a job described as a “sacred trust” by the senior military psychiatrist who will take it on. - http://ottawacitizen.com/.../the-royal-gets-research...
Who is the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group? http://www.theroyal.ca/
" General Dynamics, he added, “has the noble distinction” of being the first non-government and non-university partner of the Kingston-based Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Mental Health Research, “from which our ability to look after our patients benefits so much.”
Who is the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Mental Health Research? https://cimvhr.ca/our-team
On the government page -
Canadian Armed Forces establishes Centre of Excellence and names Chair in Military Mental Health research
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=913549
Back to the first link - I had to laugh and shake my head all at the same time when I read this - " Jetly said there are lessons for today in some of the research Meakins did. He found that gas was a psychological weapon during the Great War, in that many more people were psychologically damaged by the terror of gas attacks than were physically injured by them. The same is true, said Jetly, of the improvised explosive devices used in Afghanistan that wounded about 150 people, but caused psychological damage to thousands of others. “Enemies that can’t face you in a traditional way try to undermine your fighting force psychologically.”
How is that explanation for watering down traumatic events that are seen by the bystanders let alone the people who are injured but live to tell the tale. So landmines is a psychological weapon but not the thousand of bombs being dropped on the Middle East over the years???? Or the tank that has its barrels being targeted on Palestinian children. Oops, two dead children on the beach.
So who was Brig. Jonathan Meakins? "The founding president of the Royal College of Physicians, who was one of the world’s first PTSD researchers during the First World War." Really? In Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Campbell_Meakins
About all I could find outside the spin and revisionist files of the Harper Cons. In 2011, raising the dead - " Dr. Jonathan Campbell Meakins, born in Hamilton, Ontario, was an outstanding teacher and promoter of clinical research. As a brilliant investigator and innovative leader, he was responsible for the training of many prestigious men and women researchers, many of whom have become laureates of The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkaU49PvVYQ
And here at McGill - comprehensive and detail account of Meakins - http://muhc.ca/.../muhc-salutes-drs-albert-j-aguayo-and...
If one keeps on reading, one will think the Western military and now NATO discover PTSD and have been working on a cure since the 1900s. Not true at all. The military has always denied PTSD has existed until the 21st century. Talk about the spin.........
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