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Kirkland was among them.

As a member of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, he was seriously injured in 2008 when the Taliban ambushed his platoon in Afghanistan. Three of the five crew in Kirkland’s Light Armoured Vehicle were killed instantly.

The next thing I knew, she was beside me

As he told the committee that day, he lost 75 per cent of his hearing and some of his vision, sustained a brain injury so severe his pancreas stopped producing insulin and suffered from serious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His testimony was emotional and raw.

The transcript of the proceedings show Moore asked him only two questions that day, one about whether his fiancée had been able to help him (he told her the woman “had kind of moved on” while he was overseas) and the other about an insulin pump, which, she said, as a nurse she knew can be “a very useful tool.”

Afterwards, he said, Moore invited him back to her office.

Kirkland said that at first, he thought she might have asked him back to give him medical advice because of her nursing background.

“I was so naïve I made sure I had the names of all the medication I was on,” he said.

There were others there too, in the beginning, Kirkland said, but Moore quickly began “shooing them out.”

By then he suspected she had a thing for him (“She’s only human,” he said jokingly), and he seized the chance to leave, too.

He began walking to his hotel, and “the next thing I knew, she was beside me.”

They spent that night together, Kirkland said, and the next day he was surprised that when he visited the office of another MP, a Liberal, “everyone knew (that he and Moore had been together) …The guys were kind of joking around and me being a guy, I went along with it. What were my options?”