Veterans Affairs committee  I would add that we are opening nine offices across the country, as well as another office in Surrey, British Columbia. We are setting up another outreach clinic to serve northern and Arctic communities. Plus, we've partnered with people to help veterans fill out all the forms.

Veterans Affairs committee  Part of the military culture is that when you're in uniform, your ID card is near and dear to your heart. If you ever lose it, you have to report to the military police and get another card right away. As part of the veteran identity, one's own personal identity, the ID card is a

Veterans Affairs committee  First, I wish to express condolences to the family of the constable. This was a very tragic situation. In the fall of 2017, Minister Regan stood in the House and indicated we would not be providing support to any family member who was incarcerated in a federal institution. We cha

Veterans Affairs committee  The wait time is about 32 weeks, sir.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's the department's number one challenge. I've met with the Minister of Veterans Affairs and department officials many times, and every time, the backlog is the priority. I want to reiterate how much I appreciate Mr. Doiron's and Mr. Christopher's hard work. When a claim invol

Veterans Affairs committee  I would start off with the education and training benefit. Again, it is so difficult to get folks serving in the armed forces to plan for their next life, and we know that the key to a transition is having a plan. The uptake on the the education and training benefit has been extr

Veterans Affairs committee  Can I just touch on the veterans emergency fund? I was up in North Bay, and I was trying to figure out why North Bay is our highest consumer of the veterans emergency fund. I'd thought it would be Halifax, but in consumption per capita, it's North Bay. They are supporting World W

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm very pleased that we have Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Christina Hutchins leading the charge. She was the first female logistics officer of the airborne regiment.

Veterans Affairs committee  I really enjoyed my time talking to the service excellence advisory group, SEAG, the other day. The co-chair of that committee is right over here, Rick Christopher. Steven co-chairs the policy one. Maybe, Steven, you could run down when the one on commemoration and all the other

Veterans Affairs committee  The mental health group is going to meet next week.

Veterans Affairs committee  We'll get you the dates that they're meeting.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll also say that the minister spoke to the co-chair of each of the committees and asked them to continue doing their work. That's why we met with the service excellence group this week, and the other groups are meeting, so the work continues on all six advisory groups.

Veterans Affairs committee  With regard to service excellence, a lot of the points I've made today I went through with the group, with Rick, this week. Rick.

Veterans Affairs committee  They're in training.

Veterans Affairs committee  We are collecting the data in terms of the growth of demand, also recognizing that the solutions are not only about getting additional folks, figuring out what we need to do to digitize and what we need to re-engineer our process and what we need in terms of not only dealing with