Finance committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to appear before this committee to share with you my views on division 1 of part 6 of Bill C-31, entitled Payments—Veterans Affairs. I also wish to take this opportunity to briefly explain why Vet

Finance committee  With a few focused improvements, the new Veterans Charter could become a system of benefits and programs that has a tangible and positive impact on all veterans and their families, a system that veterans can be proud of rather than the object of unabated discontent. In closing,

Finance committee  Certainly. What we're looking at is the fact that, yes, there was no obligation on the government to follow the court's judgment, because the court's judgment was in fact for a specific client base, the SISIP clients. So that had to do with the new Veterans Charter and insurance

Finance committee  We receive a lot of complaints every year, and I must say that we have received very few complaints on this matter. We have received some, though, I must be honest. For us it's an issue of compensation and not fairness, because the court case dealt with an insurance company and i