Veterans Affairs committee  I think war services has different legislation completely from the peace force. I am not sure exactly what the differences are. I know the peacekeeping veterans have access to various services, depending on the circumstances of their injuries and what they relate to. But I don't

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not aware of any lack of health care services. I assume you mean for the peacekeeping veterans as opposed to the whole community.

Veterans Affairs committee  I am not aware of any sort of missing components, but that's another question I am not qualified to answer.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's rather interesting that our meeting place is the Royal Canadian Legion building in Miramichi. The Legion allows us to meet there. We have a general meeting every two months and an executive meeting preceding that. We also hold social functions in the Legion building, and we

Veterans Affairs committee  I think, of course, that this is returning to the notion of the umbrella organization. But there is a second theme to it, and that is that this would be, actually, the use of the infrastructure that's there. I certainly appreciate what the Legion is doing for us. But on the umbre

Veterans Affairs committee  Are you asking what you, as a committee...?

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know. I think you are doing the best you can, as far as I can see, in having witnesses from the various organizations appear here to have a full, in-depth hearing. Look at me. The Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association is not a key player in this specific issue--and a

Veterans Affairs committee  Clearly, yes. I have had some experience with contact with the centre. There's a military person, Major Gilles Paquette, who runs the CF side of it. I have spoken with him, and I think it's an ideal type of interface organization.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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