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The frightening, violent and shocking incident has left Duffield with back pain, anxiety, depression and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, the claim says.

Duffield is unable to work and the financial stresses are only exacerbating his depression, the claim says.

“Terry was quite the lamb tied to the stake. They allowed a wolf to get to him,” his lawyer, Kevin Egan, said Friday.

“The essence of the lawsuit is that a member of the public was put in harm’s way by negligence. It never should have happened.”

The statement of claim was filed against the Attorney General of Canada and the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General as the oversight ministries for RCMP and OPP, and the London and Strathroy-Caradoc police boards.

A statement of claim contains allegations that have not been proven in court.

The defendants in this case have not yet filed their statements of defence.

The basic story about the incident was well covered in the media at the time.

Aaron Driver, 24 when he was shot dead, was a known ISIL sympathizer. He had been picked up by the RCMP in Winnipeg in June 2015 after posting pro-terrorist messages online and on bail was ordered to live with a surety in that city.

Soon after, that surety withdrew support and in July 2015, Driver was ordered to live in London and remain within London at all times. He was on bail at that time awaiting a peace bond hearing.

In February 2016, a Winnipeg court placed Driver under a peace bond, requiring him to live in Strathroy with his sister.