Leave No One Behind: Randie Scott & Marc Burchell

Deputy Director (ret'd) Randie Scott spent 35 years with Correctional Services Canada and in 2008-2009, deployed with a team of correctional officers to Afghanistan. They were assigned to the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team at Camp Nathan Smith (CNS) where they begin training and mentoring their Aghan counterparts. It was during this deployment that Randie befriended Afghan police captain, Mohammed Ismail, or Captain Smiley as he became known, who worked alongside Canada's military and civilian members through Canada's mission.

Twelve years later, as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Randie and Mohammed stayed in constant contact as Mohammed ushered his family via backroads from Kandahar to Kabul and eventually to Pakistan, in a desperate bid to escape the Taliban who were hunting those, like Mohammed, who had  supported Canada and it's allies.

Marc is the former president of Equitas Society, a group formed to advocate for better pension benefits for veterans and for social covenant between government and it's military so that veterans never go with out. He is also  one of the Co-founders and Co-national Organizer of the Canadian Walk for Veterans, founded in 2018 and joins us to talk about the 5th annual walk and it's theme, Leave No One Behind.  

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