Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I think a lot more can be done for the young men and women who are serving overseas. I don't know what else I can say on that. I agree with your comments that more could be done and should be done. Being the nice people we are in that we're Canadians, and to see the things

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, sir.

Veterans Affairs committee  A qualified answer to that is yes, I agree. A great many veterans are going to come back, and they're going to be receiving care of some nature from Veterans Affairs Canada. It's only reasonable, as I understand it. I understand that when the service personnel leave Afghanistan,

Veterans Affairs committee  I think it would be an extremely difficult endeavour, bearing in mind that during that particular crisis, armed forces personnel from right across Canada were sent to various locations, just in case something did take place. Those in Montreal were sent up to Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.

Veterans Affairs committee  I agree with your submission. When a veteran experiences difficulty, I find they withdraw. They withdraw from social activities; they withdraw from the community; they withdraw from normal activities that you and I perhaps do every day without thinking twice about. They just with

Veterans Affairs committee  No, it's okay. Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  I find the RCMP have much better benefits than the military do. I feel the military benefits could be addressed, increased.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's not much, but these are things that are negotiated on contracts and things of that nature.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  I find that the recommendations and the changes that are being proposed and prepared by Veterans Affairs Canada--at least by the people that I talk with and that I'm in committees with--are reasonable under the circumstances, and they are moving forward. The difficulty I see is t

Veterans Affairs committee  To the best of my knowledge, we've always been treated equally. There's been no difficulty.

Veterans Affairs committee  I find if there is a lack of documentation with respect to an injury or with respect to a claim, if that claim is examined by a person with knowledge of the particular employment of the claimant, that could assist the claimant. I'll give you an example. If a person spent a grea

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I agree there is a tremendous amount of work that could be addressed. But by the same token, I appreciate the dollars and cents issue that goes along with any program, and that causes me some concern. You can volunteer only so much, and then it becomes a problem.

Veterans Affairs committee  There's a qualified answer to that, and the answer is yes, we get along quite well with Veterans Affairs, but we still must appreciate the privacy issue. A case in point is a veteran in Berwick, Nova Scotia, who requires a hearing aid and won't let me give his name to VAC for t

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. For instance, in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, a lot of our veterans have services that take place in Halifax and they have to take a bus; they don't have a vehicle available to them. They must take a bus, and it's not covered.