Veterans Affairs committee  No, in most cases it would not, because for the vast majority of reservists, unless they're on full-time service, medical care is provided by their civilian caregivers; therefore, the military doesn't have a medical file on them.

Veterans Affairs committee  The future of the pastoral outreach program was raised at the steering committee, and Veterans Affairs has agreed to take over the program. However, they've decided to manage it differently than when it was a joint program.

Veterans Affairs committee  That would be a question to ask the Department of Veterans Affairs—

Veterans Affairs committee  No.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not in a position to comment on that because it's more of a health services issue. Unfortunately, it's outside of my lane.

Veterans Affairs committee  "Against" may be a bit of an exaggeration.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are certain cases where we could perhaps do more. In the case of a young person who has lost both legs, for example, and who has two young children and a wife and who is suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, the lump sum payment may not be used as it should be beca

Veterans Affairs committee  That would be a possibility.

Veterans Affairs committee  We've had numerous discussions with Veterans Affairs, as I mentioned when I was answering the previous question, about serious consideration being given to looking at how we can do things better for those who are more junior in rank and have very serious injuries. There are a num

Veterans Affairs committee  It's never easy. A young man's or woman's life has been changed forever; therefore your perspective is certainly not what it was before you left for your theatre of operations or before you had your accident. That being said, all of them still definitely have the courage they had

Veterans Affairs committee  I think we're building on that through, again, the stand-up of the joint personnel support unit. Now that Veterans Affairs is in the same building with us and we're looking at the files at the same time, we're able to get things processed more quickly. Again, nine of them have b

Veterans Affairs committee  We've already seen the difference in those we have established; we're monitoring success stories. There's a comprehensive performance measurement framework, and we are seeing the results already.

Veterans Affairs committee  I just wanted to add... It seems to me that your question deals with benefits for veterans, but that is not our responsibility. We are not in a position to answer those questions: Mr. Bouchard looks after the SISIP. Benefits for veterans, applications and the review process do no

Veterans Affairs committee  Again, the stand-up of the joint personnel support unit only started in March of last year with the first nine units, so I can't give you any statistics that are relevant as of yet, but we do actively ensure that we have, for example, the transition assistance program, where we p

Veterans Affairs committee  There's no doubt that those with mental health illnesses are more difficult to place in employment than those with physical injuries. It's a question of finding the right job. Of course, depending on what the trigger is for your mental health or your operational stress injury, th