Veterans Affairs committee  So why would her name appear? Why would it say she had received a favourable decision and her name be on the list and she never got any money? These lists need to be looked into. There is something wrong here.

Veterans Affairs committee  She received the list with her name on it. and up at the top it says “clients who have received a favourable decision for receiving the ex gratia payment”. Her name was there in black and white, but she never got a cheque.

Veterans Affairs committee  No.

Veterans Affairs committee  I have not looked into it. This was Carletta's baby. She asked if she could get certain information and they sent the lists of people who had received cheques from the ex gratia payment. The last list she received said something like--

Veterans Affairs committee  The “caregivers may appear on the list multiple times”. What does that mean? Did the caregivers get three cheques or four or what? We were all caregivers. but we couldn't receive the $20,000. We just couldn't--

Veterans Affairs committee  Do you mean with the ex gratia payment?

Veterans Affairs committee  The first communication we had after we made application was that you have not proven your husband was deceased on or after February 6, 2006, and therefore you are denied the ex gratia payment. That was the first communication. We were excluded, denied, because of the date.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, but it should be.

Veterans Affairs committee  Pardon me, if you're discussing half of our husbands' military pension after death, yes, I received that.

Veterans Affairs committee  I receive half of his disability pension. It's $72.40 a month. Now, my husband paid into his pension for his whole army career, so that's his money, right? I get half of his military pension, half of his disability, so I get $72 a month, but I have not applied for supplements.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry, I just....

Veterans Affairs committee  The most important one to me is the apology, because as you said, $20,000 is nothing. There wouldn't be any amount of money anyone could give me to compensate for my husband, so an apology is very, very important to me. But here are our demands: One, compensate every widow fairly for the early death of their husbands who died with agent orange-related diseases.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we certainly can. We have them with us, but I don't know if we have enough copies today. We can certainly get them to you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Do you want to hear them all? Do you have any at all?