Veterans Affairs committee  For accommodation and housing?

Veterans Affairs committee  I did attend a meeting that the Legion had on homelessness. The only thing I can say is there are groups out there on the issue of homelessness. I am not on...I don't deal specifically with homeless veterans unless they are brought somewhere into our organization, unless I hear a

Veterans Affairs committee  I did read the piece on what they're doing for the reserves, and again, I think it's a good process and a good step forward. Over 38 years I've dealt with a lot of reservists, whether they were in the reserve unit or attached to a regular force unit, so I know their capabilitie

Veterans Affairs committee  You know what? We can sit here and come to Ottawa every month and continue sitting as a committee, getting feedback and talking about, in this case, this particular bill. I listened to the Legion's presentation yesterday. It is a step in the right direction. We can't afford not t

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Good evening. Once again, it's a great pleasure for me to appear in front of this committee to speak to you on behalf of the Aboriginal Veterans Autochtones and its partner organization the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples veterans, as well as the first nations veterans of Canada.

Veterans Affairs committee  There may not be that many more, but we have to make sure we try to capture as much as we can.

Veterans Affairs committee  I will. What I have given you is what I sent to my membership: the first nations veterans of Canada, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, and the ITK, and the response I got was that's the start, so we're digging.

Veterans Affairs committee  I mentioned two organizations. The Canadian Army that deals with the north...and that is one of the populations that we've forgotten about in all of our talks. I did have a good conversation with ITK, the executive director there, and that was one of his concerns as well. We're

Veterans Affairs committee  One issue on what Harold just talked about, the best tool that you have may be attaching DND medical with VAC medical. I don't think it's been mentioned here, but a lot of those issues may very well have been corrupt in the way that people were collecting pensions when they went

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  When you mention time as weapon, we have to consider how long we have been sitting here at the table. This is now 2014, and the issues have been on the table for quite a number of years now. So, yes, there has to be some sort of a pilot. I approached people for a pilot program de

Veterans Affairs committee  The only thing I'll add to that...everything I'm agreeing with at the table right now, the three priorities. We sit here as a committee, and we sit here as a group of veterans and other people who are in the room here that are associated with the veterans, and I remember back in

Veterans Affairs committee  I certainly agree with the issue on OSISS. I also agree with Sean's description of an allowance for spouses. I'm a fortunate guy. I have a spouse, and the other thing that sometimes I get a little annoyed to hear when we talk about spouses is that we're normally talking about a w

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, honourable members of this Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs, fellow veterans, ladies, and gentlemen, I acknowledge the fact that we meet here tonight on unceded Algonquin territory and I thank the Algonquin people. I also thank the creator for the opportunity