Veterans Affairs committee  I'll pass on this one.

Veterans Affairs committee  I fully agree with that. The previous photo IDs were a much better idea. This CF1 card looks like a Diner's Club, a Walmart, or a Costco thing. There's no real thing there. The issue with the previous card was that you had to serve 10 years before you were eligible for it. In th

Veterans Affairs committee  It definitely shows the value. That would have been a much easier fix . I believe it was the NDI 75 or the NDI 20. This came through National Defence, not Veterans Affairs. The current ombudsman has talked repeatedly about bringing in a card. Why could it not have been done? Or j

Veterans Affairs committee  How much time do I have?

Veterans Affairs committee  I think I've gone on quite a bit. There's not really much more that really needs to be added. Well, of course there actually is, but I think everyone wants to go off after this. I do want to reiterate one of the fundamental things that has to be shifted. Again, these are the clo

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. There is only one simple answer. It's not quite that simple, but it is in a way. When you are trying to find a new way of being, trying to find that new purpose, you're being told, “Well, if you try to do this, we may cut your benefits off. We're certainly going to claw yo

Veterans Affairs committee  I think my first case manager was bending to the point of snapping the actual rules. My understanding was that we were never supposed to be able to directly email our case managers, but that worked so much better. It was an unofficial twist. She probably did get reprimanded for i

Veterans Affairs committee  Off the top of my head, no. My brain feels like Jell-O right now, after going into that last one.

Veterans Affairs committee  Being an anthropologist, I am quite aware of the cultural methods, the cultural usages, the different ways of understanding what is happening and how to handle it. There are some very positive things going on there. I don't want to get into too much detail on that, because I'm no

Veterans Affairs committee  There wasn't really a switch overnight across the board. The motivations and personal drive of each caseworker seem to very much tailor how they respond. Some are more than willing to go beyond or more than willing to take on the heavier caseload and still find a way. Others wer

Veterans Affairs committee  That is what I'm suggesting.

Veterans Affairs committee  How much time do we have left?

Veterans Affairs committee  The stamp is a really small, trivial one that is disgusting because it is so banal.

Veterans Affairs committee  To me, ultimately, the worst one is the denial by design, which is why I focused on that in my statement. There were so many other aspects I could go after. One that does occur, and I have given conference papers on this, is the way we use some of the language on operational str

Veterans Affairs committee  That would be the “get the grump out” policy that they're trying to implement. I'm very well aware of that when I state that the Legion has no real place for me. Some Legions and some people in the Legion do work wonders. I want to throw that caveat in there, but by and large w