Veterans  Mr. Speaker, I can tell the member that budget 2016 was a great day for our veterans. We delivered on many different aspects of our mandate items, including increasing the earnings loss benefit, increasing access to the impairment allowance, and increasing the disability award.

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, I can assure my hon. colleague that Veterans Affairs has an excellent process to review veterans' claims. To reiterate, when a veteran has a claim, it goes through to my department. If that claim is rejected, a member can go to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, budget 2016 goes a long way to addressing some of those issues that have been brought up. We are opening up nine new offices. In fact, there will be more outreach in Surrey, B.C., and the north for veterans to have points of contact. We are hiring staff to replace

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, we accept all the Auditor General's recommendations and are working toward them through the programs that we deliver. My mandate letter says to get working on our suicide prevention, as well as our PTSD and mental health centres. That is exactly what we are going t

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, budget 2016 was a historic day for our veterans. We invested in earning loss benefits, the community impact allowance, and allowing for more access and more supports for our veterans by reopening the nine offices that were closed under the previous administration and

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, we have set up six advisory groups to advise us on policy, ranging from financial security to service delivery to commemoration and the like. We have consulted widely with our partners in the various groups, from the Legion through other members abroad. We will be go

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, I can assure the member that commemoration is important to this government. We will continue to honour those who have served from Vimy Ridge to Juno Beach, through peacekeeping efforts in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, from the Gulf War to the Afghan theatre,

Sports  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Scarborough—Rouge Park for his question, and the care and compassion he shows to veterans each and every day. The Invictus Games are a great opportunity for our injured soldiers to take part in competition, as well as to rebuild

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has been on me since day one about opening these offices, so I am glad to report that budget 2016 is a great one for veterans. Not only will we be reopening the nine offices closed by the previous government, including in Sydney, Victoria, but we wil

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, we acknowledge the significant contributions veterans and Canadian Armed Forces members have made and continue to make in protecting peace and security for all Canadians. I was given a mandate to re-establish lifelong pensions as an option for veterans and remain com

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, as stated earlier, we remain committed to treating veterans with care, compassion, and respect by implementing the mandate letter as given to me by our Prime Minister. Budget 2016 delivered on a lot of those items, including financial security for many of our most

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. The last 10 years under the Conservative government were nothing but a sham in terms of treating veterans with care, compassion, and respect. We have delivered on this extensively in budget 2016. We are moving on financial security for our most dis

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I am uncertain if my critic has been paying attention to what this government has done, so I will remind him. In budget 2016, we delivered significantly for our veterans and their families. We delivered on extending the earnings loss benefit from 75% to 90% of pre-

Veterans  I find it ironic, Mr. Speaker, that the member opposite can stand and accuse this government of anything. This came about because of years of neglect by the former government on this file. We are delivering $5.6 billion in financial security to veterans and their families. We h

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear about the record. Here is what the former government did. It cut 800 front-line support staff workers who worked with our veterans. It closed nine offices. It ignored veterans for 10 long years. We are not doing that on this side of the House. We are