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Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, could I comment on that particular issue?

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  I want to share some of the blame for the short notice. In fact, this committee, through its clerk, gave sufficient notice for this to happen, but it was an internal CPVA communication problem that caused me to get cut short. I wanted to mention that because we had discussed that

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  That's God's country out there, I know that.

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, with your permission, I thank the committee, its members and you, Mr. Chair. You took a very intimidated person this morning and you turned him into a talking machine here. I appreciate that very much. Our organization appreciates very much and recognizes th

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  Do you really think I'm going to stick my neck out there?

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  Based on how you presented it, of course. That ignores all of the existing circumstances and facts and regulations that govern those civilians, and so on, so I'm not touching that part of it at all. But common sense seems to indicate that it would be appropriate.

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, I won't add anything more to my comments. As I said, I don't want to stick my neck fully into that particular hole.

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  Speaking on behalf of my own organization, yes, there's widespread use of Legion infrastructure across the country. We do that in Miramichi. I know they do it in Victoria and in other places. It's normal, because there is such a good relationship between the organizations. In fac

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  We have a close relationship in terms of communication and consultation with the other peacekeeping organization, CAVUNP, the Canadian Association of Veterans in United Nations Peacekeeping--a very close association with them. In fact, I think there are places where we share chap

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the psychological perspective is that because there are less occurrences of the types of things that go on in Afghanistan, the unexpected actually cause more tension, in some sense. It's not to say that if you're driving in a LAV down a road in Afghanistan you're not unde

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, there were. Now, Rwanda was a peacekeeping mission. Unfortunately, there really was no chance for any response from the United Nations people there.

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there is a degree of potential there. Again, I go back to the other possible problem areas that I pointed out earlier. I think it would be a very admirable thing and an ideal thing to establish some sort of a network, which does not exist at the moment. There is a sort

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly, to answer the second one first, because I'm not familiar enough with the system, I don't know what improvements could be made. I don't know. But touching on the first one, certainly from general conversation with my fellow members, the feeling is quite clear that if y

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  It's a rather big question with a number of immediate implications. In the transcripts of Mr. Allard's appearance he mentioned a number of times that the Legion does not receive any government funding. I think this sort of an arrangement would automatically assume that there wo

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen

Veterans Affairs committee  Secondly, it would clearly indicate a preference or an anointing of the Legion as the organization by the government, and it would almost set the course for the establishment of some sort of an umbrella organization under the auspices of the Legion, which would not necessarily re

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Ray Kokkonen