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Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I do, and I know that may sound like a very extraordinary comment, and I'm not saying that I think it should be unionized in the sense that there's evil going on there and the troops are being oppressed, etc. My greatest concern is the focus of the Legion and the traditional

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there's a need.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  I've read Michel Drapeau's article, and I'm sure you have as well. It planted a bit of a seed. I spoke to him afterwards. Actually I interviewed him for an hour on it on our new television-radio network we're providing for YouTube. To expand on it a little bit, clearly there's a

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  I admire your initiative.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the largest complaint I've heard has been on the actual level of the disability. I'm not complaining, but I like to use myself as an example. You had a young man who was in here earlier from my regiment. We were both sergeants. We both wore the red sash. As a matter of

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  And the process would start moving quickly.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  I would endorse yes, but—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  It has to be written in stone that there's no clawback there though because—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  With good will, yes, there will be a perfect system, but there has to be good will. There has to be this non-partisan stuff going on. There has to be a willingness for all parties to embrace our veterans and put aside ideology as far as financial or whatever goes. Once the moment

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  No, not at all. I think you should do your job, discuss every one of those options, and come to a reasonable—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  No, absolutely. I've never believed in just a sign-off, Laurie.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  No, it's just this—

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  I would like to answer your question with an affirmative: absolutely. We're dealing a lot at the advocacy level with DND. We're very engaged on suicide prevention. We're helping many veterans—too many veterans, frankly—going through JPSU, going through transition, going through

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  I believe so.

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais

Veterans Affairs committee  It doesn't and it's funny. You mentioned that you had a buddy or whatever and you had an opportunity to photocopy. I did the same thing, believe it or not. I always tell serving members that if you ever get an opportunity to photocopy your medical, do it. It may not be “legal”, b

March 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Michael Blais