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Veterans Affairs committee I can start off by saying we had a summit last year, working with our allies. We've actually created an office of women veterans and LGBTQ2 veterans. We stood up that office, which reports to Steven.
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee Coming into the department, especially an organization that had lost so many folks, and with a head office away from the national capital in a small community.... For a headquarters to go from 2,000 folks to 1,100 folks was a shock, and it kind of goes to this notion of a perfect
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee Fifteen. There you go.
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee Can I also highlight that some veterans don't want to be found yet? There's this notion that we're going to get everybody off the street. Some veterans aren't ready. Some veterans don't want to be connected to their families yet. We have to be respectful of that. I remember the
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee If I can, I'll do that last one first. We have this guy we've hired. Brigadier-General (Retired) Mike Pearson—
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee He runs our veteran hiring unit. He is the conduit and is working with the Public Service Commission in basically mentoring and informing HR staff across all government departments, but he is also running a team in order to inform veterans how to apply to the public service. Aga
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee I'm just saying that in ensuring the documentation to the degree possible is complete and as well to nudge folks toward the My VAC Account because, again, My VAC Account is set so only complete applications could go in. For the costing, I'll turn to my colleague Michel.
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee One of the most difficult areas for us to hire is Alberta. We are trying to scoop, to poach; we're trying to do everything to get enough case managers and other staff in Alberta, as we are in other parts of the country.
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee Thank you so much for the question. When we think about supporting our veterans, we know that often veterans will leave the armed forces and things will go sideways. I talked to one veteran who was in Vanier. The last thing a veteran gives up is the cellphone and, just before t
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee They're in Montreal.
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee Let me seize the opportunity to first compliment the Royal Canadian Legion and the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans, Dominion Command, who have service officers assisting. In the case of the Legion there are 1,200 branches across the country. The service officers work with veter
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee I'm just saying in terms of getting all the documentation and the signatures, we train the Legion, and Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans.
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee We are reducing the wait times with every phase of this digitization march that we've been on. We're on phase five of digitization. When we did the disability top-up back in 2016, we did it digitally. When we went to the earnings loss benefit of 90%, we did it digitally. When we
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk
Veterans Affairs committee May I add to that?
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Gen (Ret'd) Walter Natynczyk