As athletes from 25 countries gather in B.C. this week to compete in the seventh Invictus Games, a Canadian veteran who suffered life-changing injuries in the previous games is suing the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for $2.4 million.
Scott Snow, a poster boy for Team Canada in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 2023, was injured during his first wheelchair rugby match when the chair he was using toppled backwards, slamming him onto the court floor and injuring his head, neck and spine.
CBC News previously reported that only after being injured did Snow learn that while serving CAF members are fully insured against injuries sustained during the games, veterans on the team were not. Snow is demanding that the government compensate him for treatment, pain and suffering and loss of income.
“The first time they left me behind,” Snow told CBC News this week, “I thought …