Veterans Affairs committee  My adopted father-in-law was a Japanese prisoner of war. If back in 1946 we had given him the value of $350,000, it would have been about $22,000 to carry him forward for the next 50 years. Try living on $22,000 in Vancouver. The other side of that is very interesting, because h

Veterans Affairs committee  I would like to mention something, because I have a financial background. Mr. MacEachern, you're absolutely correct. This is not a zero-sum game. So if you don't spend the money correctly to help these soldiers, somewhere, some way down the line it's going to get very costly, i

Veterans Affairs committee  I come at this in a very different manner. I have been fighting the Canadian government bureaucrats for 40 years. I've written a book on it. I know what's it like to come up against brick walls. I'm also an airline pilot. If something goes wrong in your cockpit, you don't want