Veterans Affairs committee  to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs, this is the CAV contribution. On the care and support to seriously injured veterans, veterans report that the earnings loss benefit income replacement program paid during participation in a rehabilitation program or

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, yes, it's envisioned in that way, and there are a lot of ways of doing it. I can use multiple examples. If you use Cold Lake, for instance, you have somebody who has 20 years in and you're now medically releasing them. What do you do with them? You shove them out the door.

Veterans Affairs committee  You would have both.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, you would have both, because when you leave.... I went through the medical release process. You're basically dumped out the door. This would actually stop that process from happening. So for the military person, right now you get a military case manager who looks after you

Veterans Affairs committee  If you're talking timelines and retroactivity, then they actually changed the timeline. They came out in the government and they said they were doing it in 16 weeks. But what they failed to say was the timeline used to start when my application landed on the post office guy's des

Veterans Affairs committee  Oh, retroactive, for sure, because you're looking at somebody who has already gone through the system, they've already been diagnosed, they've already been given their percentage, so for you to now change that amount of money.... Let's say you gave a guy—because the maximum five

Veterans Affairs committee  In just your own words, you said they're closing bases. Well, in retrospect, they just closed six Veterans Affairs offices. So they're going to close something they're going to close—

Veterans Affairs committee  Nine; it depends.... At any rate, you're still going to have the same problem. What I'm saying is that at least you're condensing the problem, you're getting rid of all these other offices, and it's going to be quicker and easier for the veteran to go there. I know this argumen

Veterans Affairs committee  They do.

Veterans Affairs committee  Under the Privacy Act, because it has your name on it, you're entitled to have a copy of it. For me, I've only served as a medic on six medical bases. It's part of your routine that you do a stint on the surgery floor and you do a stint in medical records. As part of your duty,

Veterans Affairs committee  As I was saying before all this started, I'm the generation of medic before the words “case manager” came in. That was my job as a medic; I was a case manager. When we brought the case management in we sat down in Montreal. The government hired Mont Tremblant.... We all sat aroun

Veterans Affairs committee  I suggest you put that to the defence committee and tell the defence committee to ask the general to put it in their work.

Veterans Affairs committee  I find that very hard to believe because—

Veterans Affairs committee  Oh, and by the way, just as a caveat to that, nobody will accept that copy.

Veterans Affairs committee  We approve of the wording amendments for the earnings loss benefit in clause 208, and the addition (c). We also applaud the extension of the earnings loss benefit past the age of 65. Our previous concern was that the earnings loss benefit be set at 100% of previous military net