Veterans Affairs committee  That is our vision, stated almost that way, and that vision includes veterans from every walk of life. As I have stated before, that's our membership definition. However, like the other organizations, we as an association recognize the need for some type of communal organization,

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a very tough question. I would have to examine that at some length. As a knee-jerk reaction, I would say there is a requirement to refine the evaluation and assessment tool. I think there is one under examination by GAC--it's a French term, SMAF--which would allow a seam

Veterans Affairs committee  That statement is based on logic, not on actual knowledge.

Veterans Affairs committee  Could I just say something here? I will return to my original statement: I am not qualified to answer that question.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the possibility of the Legion becoming an umbrella organization is a continuation of the discussion that went on with Mr. Allard. In fact, a stated mission objective for the Legion right now is to become that organization. I'm also a Legion member, so I have no problem.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. If I used the term “United Nations”, it was inadvertent because we know there are many--as we discussed here during the meeting about the Peacekeepers Day, and it was brought out very clearly--colours of berets out there, not just the blue. There's orange, there's gre

Veterans Affairs committee  In our association, as I mentioned earlier, the membership is based on being a veteran under the definition given by the government. It is basically someone who has held a military occupation code and was honourably discharged. This means that someone can belong to the Canadian P

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I could answer that question. I hope I'm not being timed.

Veterans Affairs committee  I have taken notes. I think this is a very important point. In my personal opinion, I think it is quite correct that civilians should be included as bona fide members, full members and not only associates, if they have done that kind of an operation. Other civilians who have not

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not really qualified to say because I don't know enough about the background, but I do have some interesting statistics here. Currently, I think there are 298,000 who are war service survivors, and I assume those are widows and widowers; 22,500 receive services for housekeepi

Veterans Affairs committee  I would say it ranges from about 55 to 70. It bulks out between about 60 and 65.

Veterans Affairs committee  Regarding my statement about the statistics, of course we have people in their 40s as well, and possibly some over 70. I did want to comment on Mr. Allard's commentary. I think it was at the beginning of the transcript from the 5th of June. I think this number changed later on, b

Veterans Affairs committee  We welcome police officers as members, and in fact at this time I am negotiating with a retired RCMP staff sergeant who lives in Halifax to hopefully get him to set up a chapter of the Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association in Halifax. He would then probably become the presid

Veterans Affairs committee  Our membership is based on the government definition of veteran, and I would like to return to the idea that a veteran is a veteran is a veteran later on. But yes, in that sense, all veterans can join, but there is no provision for civilians at this time with service in operation

Veterans Affairs committee  I am not absolutely certain, but at this moment I don't think the generic United Nations peacekeeping medal is given to civilians; however, I could be wrong. I'm not aware of that at this time.