Veterans Affairs committee  Understanding that we're only three years young, we're still moving and we're still growing. To answer your question, though, for us the idea of applying to the government for funding at the moment impacts upon our non-partisan position. We try to be very careful not to pick sid

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll talk about the My VAC and then the age differences of our clientele. The 22-year-old knows how to use it; the 88-year-old doesn't. It doesn't matter what you do for your My VAC. If they're 88 years old, in all likelihood they're not going to be able to deal with it. What our

Veterans Affairs committee  Perhaps VETS Canada doesn't represent what you need to talk to today. Any support that you give the family obviously is going to help our cause because it will give the family a few more resources to deal with when a member or their loved one becomes homeless. Honestly, to list t

Veterans Affairs committee  Volunteers are all military, retired military, RCMP, and retired RCMP. They bring with them a skill set that we need in terms of management, of interaction with people at risk. Informally we have their own program that we ask people to participate in. It's contact training mostly

Veterans Affairs committee  The amount of the lump sum payment is really for my purposes today of little consequence. The lump sum payment for me today is the fact that it is a contributing factor to someone becoming homeless, the way that it's administered to somebody so that they, in their spending habits

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll apologize in advance for saying “homeless” again. The people who we deal with, our clients, are a very narrow demographic of the entire veterans issue. So our people have become homeless, and the problems they have with the services that are available is that they can't acce

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have a better way for you to provide.... Medric?

Veterans Affairs committee  We are currently tracking the hours that our volunteers spend with the organization. I can't give you that answer right now, though.

Veterans Affairs committee  No.

Veterans Affairs committee  VETS Canada will take money from anybody. Whoever wants to give us money, we'll take it. That's the best way I can answer that.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are financial counsellors available now. The reason I'm sitting here is that we have people on the street, so obviously the connection between the financial adviser and the person on the street isn't working, for whatever reason. To go back to the question, I would suggest

Veterans Affairs committee  No. That individual used up his lump sum, and he actually ended up in a productive lifestyle.

Veterans Affairs committee  To understand our relationship with any other government agency or non-government agency, it's best to understand what it is that we do. We integrate all the resources available, whether from VAC, DND, the Legion, or social services. We integrate all of that together to get the p

Veterans Affairs committee  Our relationship is working. When we approach Veterans Affairs, they bend over backwards to give us the help we need, and we haven't had an occurrence up to now with our clients that I'm aware of in which that relationship was a problem.