Veterans Affairs committee  What's my view of the spending?

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I'm well aware of that. I'm sure the committee is familiar with the Pension Act. The fact is that there are mandatory increases that have nothing to do with government. Whatever government sits, those spending increases will occur, and in fact it was, I believe, in 2007 that

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Ms. Hughes. You've touched on the crux of the problem in Veterans Affairs. Veterans Affairs has designed a host of programs. They are programs designed by bureaucrats to satisfy bureaucratic processes; they're not programs designed by veterans in conjunction with bur

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, sir. What I did with respect to Veterans Affairs was I first reported the allegations as I understood them; I didn't have access to the documents at the time. Then, when I received responses, there was nothing about allegations in the letter, but it asked me to pleas

Veterans Affairs committee  The fall of 2005 was when I first reported my impression of what was going on. The involvement with the Prime Minister's Office was in August and September 2006, and then after that time I was engaged in a three-year process. I provided the department with all the details of what

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. Ms. Hughes, you're absolutely right. In the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans make up 30% of the entire employee workforce, and 25,000 of that 30% are disabled veterans. Veterans Affairs cannot answer how many veterans are employed in their department. I s

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Monsieur André. Just to clarify, is it that you would like to know the type of accompaniment that would be applicable to the reprisals? So it is resolutions to help fix or prevent reprisals in the future—si je comprends bien.

Veterans Affairs committee  What I would like to say is that, first of all, I'm more than willing to divulge to this committee or any official body all of the body of the 13,000 documents. I've done a lot of research and summary, so I can provide you with all those details. I can give you some general areas

Veterans Affairs committee  Thanks for the kind words about my advocacy, first of all. I really appreciate them. Regarding the lump sum, Mr. Oliphant, the reason they implemented the lump sum, the national finance committee of the Senate was told, is that this lump sum will help people get a start up in li

Veterans Affairs committee  It was a complete repackaging. It was more of a turf war than anything. Veterans Affairs had been criticized for years for not taking care of these programs. Veterans Affairs should have implemented something like SISIP 30 years ago. Once again, National Defence took the lead whe

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the concept of the original Veterans Charter after World War II is a good concept. I think the repackaging took catch words and catch phrases from World War II but didn't provide the substance. If we provide the same substance as existed in World War II programs to help p

Veterans Affairs committee  These briefing notes were given to the sitting minister whenever I carried out my advocacy work. The notes were principally 10 pages long and included the most intimate details of my pharmacological drug use, my financial benefits, my bladder functions, my mental health state, an

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Ladies and gentlemen of the committee, thank you very much for inviting me and my wife here today to testify on the new Veterans Charter. In many ways, Canada's veterans were betrayed by the MPs who sat in the 38th Parliament. They passed the Veterans Charter