Veterans Affairs committee  I haven't given specific thought to that, but the program as such is very well documented within Veterans Affairs Canada. It would not be hard at all to extract a paragraph or a sentence or two from what is essentially the mandate of Veterans Affairs to run the funeral and burial

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, I did have a look at it, and I noticed that section 57 deals with the death benefit. It would be a perfect place to put it; that's what I was preparing to offer to the committee. Instead of talking about a “member”, one just simply inserts the word “veteran”, and puts in th

Veterans Affairs committee  It's worse than that. This is an observation, is all it is. I'm not throwing stones at anybody. Not only was it cut in half in 1995 arbitrarily to balance the budget, but one would think, then, a few years later it would have been reinstated because the budget was balanced. That

Veterans Affairs committee  The Last Post Fund, to my knowledge, was not.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, lady and gentleman, members of the committee, I'd like to thank you for this opportunity to speak to you briefly this afternoon concerning the new Veterans Charter, and in particular the Last Post Fund in relation to the new Veterans Charter. I speak to you in my