Grieving parents of dead soldier stuck with legal fees in fight with DND
A grieving couple, threatened with jail by the Canadian Forces if they didn’t participate in an inquiry into their daughter’s suicide, have been stuck with the legal bill after they went to court to force the military to back off its threats.
The federal government is not only refusing to pay Rick and Ellen Rogers’s own $2,425.55 legal tab but believes the couple is also liable for the Department of National Defence’s court costs.
The battle by the Rogers family to get answers about their daughter’s 2012 death, along with details of how the Canadian Forces continued to make demands on the couple, was revealed by the Citizen on Oct. 21. The news story prompted James Bezan, parliamentary secretary to the minister of defence, to tell the House of Commons that the military’s treatment of the Rogers family was “not acceptable.”
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