DND snubs artist's portraits of medics
OTTAWA — Ottawa artist Karen Bailey says the Defence Department is giving the cold shoulder to her attempts, in paintings and a book, to honour the work of Canadian medical personnel serving in a military hospital in Afghanistan.
"They're just not interested," Bailey says of the Canadian Forces leadership.
The issue does not appear to be the quality or content of Bailey's paintings showing Canadian military doctors, nurses and others working in the Kandahar hospital called Role 3 but the very attempt by Bailey to single out the medical crew for praise and recognition in a planned book about her paintings.
An email recently sent to Bailey from a senior military officer, purportedly quoting the views of Brigadier General Hilary Jaeger, the outgoing surgeon general and senior Canadian Forces medical officer, says headquarters does not see the work of the medical personnel in Afghanistan as "extraordinary" and consequently "efforts to showcase or immortalize the efforts of personnel in Afghanistan will likely not resonate with the CF leadership."
More on that email later. First some background. Karen Bailey's art snubbed by Defense Department
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