Veterans Affairs committee  Sure. I'll try to make it quick, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Lizon. I would definitely agree that pushing the online and digital access doesn't always work. I'm under the ago of 40 and I can't figure out the Veterans Affairs website at all, and I'm quite technically savvy when it come

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't believe that it's in the new Veterans Charter. I believe it's in the Pension Act, it's in the War Veterans Allowance Act, and it's in the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act, but it is not found in the preamble and there is no construction paragraph in the Canadian Force

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely, I asked for that in my presentation.

Veterans Affairs committee  With regard to the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada, we have 67 units across the country and seven provincial commands. We have a structure very similar to that of the Royal Canadian Legion. We have Dominion conventions every two years, resolutions come from the member

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I think everybody answered that question. It's missing in legislation, and now the government—

Veterans Affairs committee  —although it may not be the minister.... The minister has committed in public that he believes that there is some sort of covenant—

Veterans Affairs committee  —but the government lawyers are not quite there. So I have to give them at least a D-minus.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I believe your question was whether we were consulted about Bill C-55. I wasn't in my position back then. My predecessor, Lorne McCartney, would have been the Dominion secretary-treasurer at that time. I would assume that if ANAVETS and the NCVA and the Legion and

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, yes, I would concur with both my colleagues at this table that the work has been done in the past, and doing it over and over again seems redundant to many of the veterans' organizations. We appreciate the fact that this committee was going to have to do a review

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you. In response to Mr. Stoffer's question, what we've written here is the construction paragraph that you find in the Pension Act and many other acts that came before it. It's not found in the new Veterans Charter. As veterans associations that were involved

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, it is a great honour to represent Dominion President George Beaulieu, our executive, and the approximately 15,000 members of Canada’s most senior veterans association, The Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canad