Medication

[Mama_workman]

Hello,

Our son is just doing all the medical paperwork from
Our doctor. He is currently on 100mg anti anxiety medication. He is going to tell his Doctor not to mention that he is taking the medication as he was told that once he gets the forms filled then it’s one more interview them just the waiting game
Curious if you know if him taking medic will deter him getting in? Should he stop taking the medication until he gets in? He desperately wants to get into the military but also sees the benefits of taking the medication

 

[PuckChaser]

If he lies about medication he could be classed as an irregular enrollment and released. His doctor is also unlikely to lie for him on the forms. If he needs anti-anxiety medication for normal everyday life, imagine how serious his anxiety will be in a stressful and demanding BMQ, let alone an operational deployment.

You need to have a parent-son conversation and figure out whether the medication is actually necessary in consultation with the doctor (and still declare it's usage dates accurately), or whether the military is attainable at this point in your sons life. Starting a career in the CAF by being dishonest could preclude him from ever serving again, when he may just be required to be off the medication for X months/years if it's even a disqualifier at all.

 

[ModlrMike]

Not the best way to start a career rooted in Duty with Honour.

 

[medicineman]

Given that lying on enrollment is an Offence under the National Defence Act, and you're advised of this when you're signing your medical questionnaire, and if they're not, then they should be made aware of the following:

Fraudulent enrolment

121 Every person who, having been released from Her Majesty’s Forces by reason of a sentence of a court martial or by reason of misconduct, has afterwards been enrolled in the Canadian Forces without declaring the circumstances of that release is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to imprisonment for less than two years or to less punishment.

• R.S., 1985, c. N-5, s. 121
• 2019, c. 15, s. 46

Previous Version
Marginal note:False answers or false information

122 Every person who knowingly

• (a) makes a false answer to any question set out in any document required to be completed, or
• (b) furnishes any false information or false document,

in relation to the enrolment of that person is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to imprisonment for less than two years or to less punishment.

• R.S., c. N-4, s. 112

Marginal note:Assisting unlawful enrolment

123 Every person who is concerned in the enrolment of any other person and who knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that by being enrolled that other person commits an offence under this Act is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to imprisonment for less than two years or to less punishment.

• R.S., c. N-4, s. 113