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Veterans Affairs committee  We will indeed.

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  As I was suggesting earlier, the decision was focused on offsets of Veterans Affairs Canada disability pensions paid under the Pension Act against the SISIP program. This is a program of the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces, and it hinged on a very complex d

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  With respect to clause 156, I can tell you that this legislation is within the jurisdiction and mandate of Veterans Affairs Canada. That's what we are focused on and that's what we're targeting. We do not intend to go into provincial jurisdictions to look at how they do their pro

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I think if I understand the question, there's reference to a Supreme Court proceeding in this context. To my knowledge, the Government of Canada actually had made a decision to honour or respect and recognize the Federal Court decision. In fact, no appeal was taken fro

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  Essentially, under these legislative amendment proposals, one will simply say that under the War Veterans Allowance Act there will no longer be a deduction made for disability pension benefits. In other words, the references to the Pension Act will be essentially removed. So it w

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a very good question, Mr. Casey, and offhand I'm not sure of the breadth of the offsetting of these various programs. That was actually on my mind as I came in here this morning in anticipation of a question of that nature. We can get the answer for the committee if it wou

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, effectively, in terms of implementation, assuming the legislation is passed by the House and by the government, we will be proactively looking at all the files of all of the WVA recipients currently. We'll be doing a comprehensive review to ensure that every current re

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have a timeline in front of me, Mr. Chair, but I can tell you that in the implementation plan for the process, it's fairly aggressive. We're contemplating, within the first, literally, weeks and early months of passage of the legislation, to engage in that process and to

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  On that very issue, Mr. Chair, all I can tell you is that we are looking at that very issue ourselves right at the moment and trying to better understand what are currently the implications of that proceeding. So right at this moment in time I can't give you an answer, because I

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  I haven't seen it, no.

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, the Manuge decision, as you know, was related to a SISIP insurance policy. In the decision, the court did pronounce very clearly that it did not have a direct impact on Veterans Affairs Canada's Pension Act, because in the terms of that piece of legislation, as I under

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I would think this strays well beyond my expertise and competence, if you will, before this committee to comment on that. But as I say, I think it was clear in the Federal Court ruling that it was very specific to the SISIP policy, and that evidently the Government of

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I would again suggest that this is a question that I'm certainly not able to comment on or not prepared to comment on, believing it to be outside my scope.

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

Veterans Affairs committee  That's correct. They do not address those issues.

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler

May 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Bernard Butler