Good afternoon, thank you.
I am a veteran who served two missions in Germany. I spent five and a half years of my life doing various small missions in Germany.
The reason I'm here today is because I joined the Royal 22nd Regiment veterans group, which has a lot of veterans.
For the past few years, we have decided to help veterans of the Royal 22nd Regiment who have difficulty integrating into the system to get medical help, psychiatric help or help with their pensions. The system is flawed and often people give up and end up on the street in Montreal. I have also been involved with the homeless in Montreal for seven years. I also meet a lot of veterans whom we redirect to the system and who start from scratch. They are not aware of all the help they can receive.
So we decided to come together and help them. On February 21, I attended an event with homeless people. We were about 50 veterans of the Royal 22nd Regiment here in Montreal and we had a small booth. We identified six new veterans and referred them to resources that can help them. In Montreal, the need is great, as it is everywhere. So we decided to help the homeless, to speak up on their behalf and to ask for help for those who can't.