Veterans Affairs committee  It's very important that someone who is in the medical chain while they're in the military stay that route for release and do not take a voluntary release. There's a huge difference between being released 3B medical and 4C voluntary. Monetary disadvantage is one. It has no bear

Veterans Affairs committee  In Canada, Canadian Forces doctors will diagnose the injury; they won't link it to service. That's up to Veterans Affairs. First, on the transfer of the file, we have no problem as service officers in getting that file very quickly. Once the member signs, that's an immediate pro

Veterans Affairs committee  It's not a problem for us at the moment. I see more problems with.... Again it's tooting our own horn, I guess, but we've been in this business for a long time. All our command service officers are ex-military. I must say one positive change in the past few years is the departmen

Veterans Affairs committee  The main claims we are handling are for PTSD. Following on to PTSD, there are many consequential claims. It is recognized that bruxism, one condition you spoke about, can be a consequential claim to PTSD. There are avenues there for claiming in the claim process. As for the foll

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we are extremely supportive of a veterans' identification card. We have a resolution in with the government now for a veterans' identification card, along with an identification card for a veteran's family. I'll go back to my days in uniform, when I wrote briefing notes to

Veterans Affairs committee  As our press release stated, we were optimistic. We were optimistic that there were 14 tasks provided to the minister in his mandate letter, and I believe five of those tasks were covered. We're optimistic that some of the tasks were covered, but at the same time, advisory grou

Veterans Affairs committee  While the Legion continues to deliver many programs to veterans and their families to ensure quality of life after release and ease the transition from service, more research is required to determine the effects of service unique to the Canadian military demographic and unique to

Veterans Affairs committee  The Royal Canadian Legion is the only veteran service organization that assists veterans and their families with representation to Veterans Affairs Canada and the Veterans Review and Appeal Board. The Legion's advocacy program is core to our mission. We have been assisting veter

Veterans Affairs committee  If we called it a family respite benefit, yes, I would agree.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, do I have a second on this one?

Veterans Affairs committee  Excellent. A family caregiver is actually not in our minds a caregiver. As we said, it's a respite. That's all it is. As you heard this morning, it's not based on $139 or $129 a week. It's based on 30 days. They have the money that way, the $7,200 for a 30-day respite. What we wa

Veterans Affairs committee  It's not something we asked for. It is positive—$70K is a lot of money. It is tax free, but it's going to be to a select group of veterans. I would like to see a lot of details on it. I know the policies and the regulations are not done yet. It's very confusing when I look at th

Veterans Affairs committee  I will make one more comment, that we are very open to the department also reviewing the regulations and the application process. My service offices across the country will be completing the applications, so it's important that we see the regulations to fulfill that requirement a