Mr. Parent, the 2013 figures from your office show that out of around 87,000 clients of Veterans Affairs Canada, 1,428 of them are “totally and permanently incapacitated”. Of these over 1,400 veterans, 406 would not receive any allowances or Canadian Forces pensions.
Could you elaborate on that deficit of such a large number of veterans who are totally and permanently incapacitated who are not receiving any allowances or pensions? What should we include in the 2015 budget to address these severely injured veterans?