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Veterans Affairs committee How is that relevant, Mr. Chair?
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee In fact, if you'd like to know about my political background, sir, I can tell you that I joined the Progressive Conservative party in 1972. I worked for a number of Progressive Conservative MPs from 1979 to 1983—
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee —and I worked for a Reform Party of Canada member of Parliament in 1993.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee Not at the moment....
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee I was in the department of social sciences. I taught law courses in the department of social sciences.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee How does that relate to the new Veterans Charter?
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, I can. Parliamentary sovereignty is the sense that an elected Parliament is sovereign in its field to make decisions on behalf of Canadians.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee Parliament is supreme.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee In 2011...?
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee The only other time I have appeared before this committee was in October, when the committee talked about the Veterans Review and Appeal Board. I believe it was towards the end of October. I represented the army, navy, and air force veterans association.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee Briefly then, the importance of your question—and it's a very good question—is addressed on pages 23 and 24 of the ombudsman's report, “Improving the New Veterans Charter: The Actuarial Analysis”. Those are the six items there on pages 23 and 24 that are extremely important—
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee —and they were discussed yesterday at the Senate subcommittee as well.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee Yes, I checked with his staff.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee They were reluctant to provide me with the information. They wanted to know why I was asking for that information.
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs
Veterans Affairs committee It was just a verbal question. How many veterans work in the minister's office?
March 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jerry Kovacs