Veterans Affairs committee  I don't even know. That gap between releasing and actually getting all your Veterans Affairs benefits, I think, needs to be eliminated, shortened, or just streamlined so it's out of the way. I can't tell you how the process got in place anyway; I don't know the history. I just kn

Veterans Affairs committee  From the beginning, I think, from when Cody, Barry, and Alannah started, there's been this gap between DND and Veterans Affairs, and it's called SISIP. I think that's the problem. I've had chats with other veterans and the former minister of Veterans Affairs, and that was his opi

Veterans Affairs committee  I think it would depend on what your physical problem is. As Alannah was saying, we had to deal with DND to modify the home. That was a real process. Without getting into it, it took years and was just a real problem. It probably led to us both having.... My OSI from being wounde

Veterans Affairs committee  In terms of...?

Veterans Affairs committee  Right.

Veterans Affairs committee  Right. My injuries are pretty easy to diagnose. I'm missing two feet, so I have prosthetics. That puts me immediately in a permanent category. I'm then given a time frame during which I can stick around and make some decisions. In my case, I was given quite a decent amount of tim

Veterans Affairs committee  You're given a date, basically. Once your date comes in—mine was June 18, 2014, I believe—you have your set time to get things in order, and that's when the whirlwind starts. You go to the JPSU. There is a Veterans Affairs representative there, and there's a SISIP representativ

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not sure I understand. Are you talking about what my CO at 1 RCR...if he had had a tool that would have helped?

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I guess I'll start. Hey, Cody, Jesse, guys. I was 20 years in the infantry. I hear you guys loud and clear. I'm tracking, so get in contact if you can, and let's have a talk. I don't have a prepared statement or anything. I retired. I was lucky. My transition

National Defence committee  That would be nice. For serving, the JPSU is your agent. So if you're posted to JPSU, there is the services manager in charge of the platoon. They still use military jargon, so everyone is assigned a section commander. A normal section commander—in the infantry, anyway—will hav

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  You can do the WSIB thing.

National Defence committee  I'm not using any of them, because I'm going down a route where I've made my own path, which is my choice. If I wanted to, though, there are plenty of options for me to find a way out. So it's good. For a lot of soldiers, as I said, you wake up one day, you're told where to be,

National Defence committee  For me, I've looked at the services. SISIP has services, and DND has services. My personal feeling is that it's actually really good. There's a lot in terms of retraining, for example. Being a combat soldier, I have a little bit more available, because there's not much of a mar

National Defence committee  You know, Libya was hiring for a while, but that ended. You can go to university, or if you're a clerk or a mechanic, they will pay for your upgrade to be certified on the civilian side. If you're a medic, they'll send you to paramedic school, or maybe nursing school, if you can