Veterans Affairs committee  I concur.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  As everybody said, an injury is an injury. It doesn't matter what type it is, physical or psychological, it should be treated the same way.

Veterans Affairs committee  We have 12 minutes left.

Veterans Affairs committee  Excuse me, sir, do you have a question?

Veterans Affairs committee  As I said, if you compare it to the Pension Act, your payments continue until you die. To say that after age 65 you don't need as much income is ridiculous. Your disabilities haven't gone away. Based on the fact the department has been paying out VIP for decades, independence in

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. Like many public announcements, these new programs seem to offer more financial support for the veterans community. Closer examination of each one can raise a host of potential problems. The one question that this committee can ask V

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I have. I haven't commented on it yet because I'm waiting until next month when there's a summit with the minister.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, medical information was made available to Veterans Affairs from DND, but as the gentlemen from Monster have explained, there is difficulty translating military information into the equivalent civilian terminology, and the problem is that Veterans Affairs, with so few former

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. You're probably familiar with the case of Sean Bruyea, who sued the department and members of it. There have been a number of people—I don't know exactly how many, because most of the information is confidential—who have had their information shared. My own personal file was

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I can.

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the basic problems that everyone faces when they're assessed by VAC is that the person doing the assessment has no medical training and is relying strictly on the Merck Manual, which defines exactly what the doctors and nurses understand as your condition or illness. They

Veterans Affairs committee  As I said, that's part of the problem. DND doesn't have the resources to screen everybody, as you suggest, simply because you're talking of tens of thousands of people who would have to be screened medically. It's hard enough to get screened if you are a medical case. There would

Veterans Affairs committee  Given my experience with OSI, yes, because in many cases people don't start to exhibit an OSI until much later, and it could be triggered by any number of things. Based on medical professionals' experience, up to 25% of the serving military, both regular and reserve, could experi