Veterans Affairs committee  Boy, you opened up a huge question, but I'll try to answer it within the time limit of the chair. First of all, any veteran anywhere in Canada can access Can Praxis. They can contact us, or they can contact the individuals at Can Praxis directly. Again, we'll provide transportat

Veterans Affairs committee  No, we were not.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. Now you're talking about an overall societal benefit, because it works both ways. For the longest time, as I told you, I served with an engineer unit. We had guys who were truck drivers, all civilian-employed. They couldn't get equivalency in the military. You might say,

Veterans Affairs committee  In our experience, Wounded Warriors Canada has become recognized throughout the country for the programs that exist. Veterans are able to find us pretty easily because we're very active in what we talked about, new technology. Facebook, social media, and our website, etc., have e

Veterans Affairs committee  Obviously, you're right. That's the piece we've identified. When we talked about our spectrum of care, obviously you start at one end with VETS Canada and getting people off the street, the veterans transition program, which is geared towards individuals, and some of our other su

Veterans Affairs committee  An organization like ours that works on transition issues and grassroots support recognizes right away that there is a need for ongoing research. Research is not as sexy as the other programs that we do. It's much harder because it takes so much longer to see fruition and results

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, on behalf of Wounded Warriors Canada it's our pleasure to appear once again before this committee and to be part of the very important discussion on the continuum of transition services for our ill and injured Canadian Armed Forces members

Veterans Affairs committee  It's expensive.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, may I have one moment on this question? As the largest national provider of funding for service dogs in Canada, we just graduated our hundredth service dog at a ceremony right here on Parliament Hill. I can tell you the testimonials of the veterans who have service

Veterans Affairs committee  Oh, we certainly don't see it as a negative thing. It's a step in the right direction. But you have to realize what happens particularly when a veteran is being released who had planned on a long career. Because of their service or something that happens, now they're medically

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. So the transition, and early identification.... What happens with a lot of guys, especially guys who are struggling with medical issues, and especially if they're mental health issues, is that they're delaying their decisions. Their SISIP is ticking. The clock is ticking.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  We weren't directly consulted on any of the changes, etc., but I think it's pretty clear from our presentation, our unanimous support around here in thinking about how the ombudsman's report did a pretty good job of outlining where the shortfalls are. There's no use in going back

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, we were pleased to fund VETS Canada last week and announce in a public forum a $40,000 donation. The reason we chose VETS Canada is that VETS Canada meets with our condition as a charity that the benefits in the programs we offer have to be avai

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, and honourable members of the committee, on behalf of Wounded Warriors Canada, thank you for the invitation to appear before this committee and be part of the very important discussion on the statutory review of the enhanced new Veterans Charter. By way of introduc