Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   on, is the commitment to the last post fund. For people watching at home and members in opposition who are listening, I should mention that our government, in the face of recession and economic downturn, maintained our funding to veterans. We did not cut and run, we did not duck, but we maintained

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   program that is delivered by the Last Post Fund corporation on behalf of Veterans Affairs Canada. It will amount to about $65 million over two years and will double the reimbursement rate, from $3,600 to $7,376. Our government is working hard to maintain low taxes for Canadian

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  . The chair of the Last Post Fund testified at the veterans committee a year and a half ago, as follows: For more than a decade, the Last Post Fund has advocated that the program be extended to modern-day veterans in the same way it was offered to traditional veterans. Unfortunately

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, it will come as no surprise that, as the Veterans Affairs critic for the Liberal Party, I do not share the minister's view with respect to the impact of this budget on veterans. With respect to the Last Post Fund, first, the budget trumpets a $65 million increase

Strengthening Military Justice in the Defence of Canada Act   Armed Forces. We saw that the government had to be pushed to the wall to do something to replenish the Last Post Fund.

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, veterans and their families deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. However, a number of low-income veterans' families cannot use the last post fund to help pay for funeral expenses. The $12,000 exemption is simply not high enough; it falls well below

Last Post Fund  The time provided for the consideration of this item of private members' business has now expired, and the order is dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the order paper.

Last Post Fund  . I want to come back to the motion before us today, Motion No. 422, on improving the Last Post Fund. I will elaborate. The Last Post Fund was mandated by Veterans Affairs Canada to provide financial assistance to veterans in need, in order that they may have a funeral worthy

Last Post Fund   2008, and I have heard numerous veterans groups who appeared before committee talk specifically about the last post funding and they have made themselves clear, not only in House of Commons committees but in the Senate committees as well. As far as consultation is concerned, we

Last Post Fund   to debate it in committee. I am very pleased to participate in the debate. Part of the reason is that for some time now, I have actually had a motion before the veterans committee. The minute we tried to introduce the motion to do a root and branch study of the Last Post Fund before

Last Post Fund  , but there is no plan in the budget. It says it will be $63 million in the first year and $2 million in the second year. I called officials with the Last Post Fund and they knew nothing about it. They were pleased but they were surprised by this. When I received a briefing from the department

Last Post Fund   is considered. As well, members of the House may be interested to know how the funeral and burial program is actually administered. It is administered for the government by the Last Post Fund, a non-profit organization that started as a grassroots movement back in 1909. It is estimated

Last Post Fund  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for sharing her party's views on the funeral and burial program. What is very surprising is to see a member from the Liberal Party stand and put forward such a motion. It was the Liberal Party, while it was in government, that drastically cut benef

Last Post Fund  Mr. Speaker, is it not just like the Conservatives to suggest that by voting against the economic action plan, we would be voting against veterans, when nothing could be further from the truth? We are giving the Conservatives the opportunity to single out this issue, to vote for

Last Post Fund   of the Last Post Fund, it is partly due to the legacy of the Chrétien government, which reduced the estate exemption from $24,000 to $12,000. According to my colleague, what amount would be acceptable today? Would $24,000, which was the amount that could be accessed in 1995, be acceptable