Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I can't give you percentages. I don't have that skill, but what I guess it comes down is Canadian values and what we want to put towards looking after veterans who have been injured.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have to tell you that I think I'm feeling the love here by being put in a group like this, with me being the policeman and these guys being the people with all the financial capability. If it were the other way around, with one individual who knew finance

Finance committee  Well, you're the ones who are probably in the finance area a lot more than I am, but what I can tell you is that any incentive for a company to make it easier for their bottom line to hire somebody would certainly go a long way to making that happen. When we have veterans who are

Finance committee  Any way they can be accommodated, I would suggest, should be done to make it an incentive to the company to hire a veteran.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I don't believe there is a total panacea that exists out there with reference to pension reform. What this country needs to do, what we need to do so that people can retire with health, dignity, and financial dignity has to be more than what is happening today. The C

Finance committee  Boy, you really want me to go back into that think tank, don't you? Mr. Chair, to put it into a much better context, as an association, we are advocating pharmacare and in-home care as the mantra which we believe the seniors of this country need at the end of the day. Health car

Finance committee  That's a very good question, Chair. Thank you. No matter if he's a regular armed forces member or a reservist, a human being is still a human being. That person who goes to Afghanistan and comes back without body parts is still a human being without body parts. Because he may be

Finance committee  I can't give you an example as to what one or the other may be. What I can probably say is that in civilian law in Canada, courts provide certain information, certain judgments, with reference to those kinds of issues, but they haven't gotten into that realm whereby that's what a

Finance committee  Here you have to take a look at perhaps a different terminology with an investment, Mr. Chair. This is an investment in people. This is an investment in the people who have perhaps gone to foreign lands or fought within Canada. They have suffered injuries, sometimes mental illnes

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I have to tell you that I had a ten-minute presentation here that just had to be cut to five. I hope I can make it. On behalf of the National Association of Federal Retirees, I am pleased to address this committee on the issues that affect al