Veterans Affairs committee  You're very welcome.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. Is it all right if I stay to hear more?

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you all for bearing with me in my testimony.

Veterans Affairs committee  The council?

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, it's fully funded. We're basically volunteers, but it costs money to bring us to meetings.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, actually we have a mandate to give advice. Technically it's to give advice when we are asked for advice, and sometimes we tell them what to ask, or we give it anyway. But we do not have a research budget. Now it may be, in an indirect way—and I'm sure it is—that some of the

Veterans Affairs committee  On the first one, is it frustrating, yes, it is. But you know, I tell graduate students when they're starting their careers, “Don't try to solve all the world's problems in one study. It's a long-range process. Bring your little pebble, throw it on the pile, and maybe you'll even

Veterans Affairs committee  I agree with you completely. One thing in my additional notes here that I thought I would try to get in is that education really is the key. I've done some work... We're refining that work with a graduate student of mine who's going to do a dissertation out of it, and David Pe

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll tell you something with all respect and all lack of humility: they are the best gerontologists in the country. Anne Martin-Matthews is on the council now. She's the scientific director for the Canadian Institute of Aging, which is one of the CIHR institutes, and she's as g

Veterans Affairs committee  As I say, they really have not fallen on deaf ears within the Department of Veterans Affairs Canada, so to say why they have fallen on deaf ears is at a political level, and I don't know if I should go there.

Veterans Affairs committee  I haven't met with him one on one, but I've met him in the context of attending meetings.

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, I would say no. As I mentioned, when you write the letter, the response you get back basically says that the department is doing a lot for veterans; it's doing all these nice things for veterans. It never explicitly says, “We endorse this report.” We've never been told

Veterans Affairs committee  I am hoping that maybe you folks can help some people to do so. The current vehicle, the new Veterans Charter advisory recommendations, really incorporates most of the same principles, the same basic principles, right?

Veterans Affairs committee  Also, there has to be some kind of evolution. At one point, of course, all the traditional World War II and Korea veterans will be dead, and then there will be no problem with two systems. There will be no problem achieving that a veteran is a veteran is a veteran, that kind of t

Veterans Affairs committee  Maybe because I was on the economic committee of the new Veterans Charter advisory group, I think the recommendations about the economic injustices would be one. The second critical one—and I know the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of National Defence are wor