Veterans Affairs committee One of the difficulties for any organization that we're part of when dealing with individuals is how best to compress and collate all this information so that you can make sense out of it and adjust policies, procedures, and rules to better express what the wish is to be. Right
October 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Colonel
Veterans Affairs committee Who did you want to answer that?
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Col John Eggenberger
Veterans Affairs committee That suits me.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Col John Eggenberger
Veterans Affairs committee Not district offices; I'm aware of the downsizing, right-sizing, transformation process, as I spoke of briefly. We're all very much aware of that. Whenever you reduce the number of people around, you're going to reduce the number of capabilities to discuss matters with veterans
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Col John Eggenberger
Veterans Affairs committee So there's no fire in the building.
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Colonel
Veterans Affairs committee All right. Thank you very much. I have been reliably informed that I have less than three minutes of conversation, so I'll try to make it go smoothly. The transformation of Veterans Affairs Canada calls for changes in organizational structure. We three, among all veterans who h
June 7th, 2012Committee meeting
Col John Eggenberger
Justice committee Hear, hear!
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
John Eggenberger
Justice committee Perhaps I could add to that. When we polled our folks, there was one gentleman who was speaking probably for the bulk of our group. He said that it should start at $10,000. You've got to get serious. A fine of $1,000, well, you know....
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
John Eggenberger
Justice committee Well, you've got.... Take the bill and get something going. Something is better than nothing.
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
John Eggenberger
Justice committee The Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association, of which I'm a vice-president, polled our membership just before I came. The bill was circulated to them. I don't know if it's okay or not, but we did that. They came back giving absolutely 100% approval. We didn't have anybody who
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
John Eggenberger
Justice committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I am pleased to be here today to speak to this legislation as a veteran and a representative of a national veterans organization. This is an issue that is very close to my heart. As Mr. Tilson just said, our cenotaphs and wa
March 27th, 2012Committee meeting
John Eggenberger