The issue is not so much depression as whether you threatened or attempted to harm yourself or anyone else. Merely having suffered from depression (or bipolar disorder) is not a bar to a PAL/RPAL. If it were, half the country would be ineligible (but maybe that's what the Man wants).
See, for example, the following document that was produced by the privacy commissioner as a result of complaints about the rather intrusive questions on the R/PAL application.
http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/fr_010813_e.pdf
The actual wording of the relevant guideline is :
These questions are pretty stupid because any psychiatrist will tell you that s/he is not in a position to predict who's going to go postal or suicidal, and the only good predictor of who's going to be violent is a violent past (which the RCMP would already know about.)
Also, borgnine, assuming your wife is your current conjugal partner, she can't be your reference.
See, for example, the following document that was produced by the privacy commissioner as a result of complaints about the rather intrusive questions on the R/PAL application.
http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/fr_010813_e.pdf
The actual wording of the relevant guideline is :
... has been treated for a mental illness ... that was associated with violence or threatened or attempted violence on the part of the person against any person.
These questions are pretty stupid because any psychiatrist will tell you that s/he is not in a position to predict who's going to go postal or suicidal, and the only good predictor of who's going to be violent is a violent past (which the RCMP would already know about.)
Also, borgnine, assuming your wife is your current conjugal partner, she can't be your reference.
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