Finance committee  Thank you. I'll take half of this and Sean will take the other half. In the provincial workers compensation program in 2012 in, say, British Columbia, you insure a person's income up to $72,000 a year. That's $6,000 a month. If they're totally disabled, they will get $6,000 redu

Finance committee  I'll respond, and then turn it over to Sean. We noticed with the previous government that they were fed information from the civil service and they believed it right up until the point where they took action to research it themselves, and then great strides were made. I don't f

Finance committee  I'll take this one. At the end of the last term with the last government, with Erin O'Toole as the minister, great strides were made to close the gap between veterans and Veterans Affairs Canada. With the new government in place, it's been a huge step backwards. The civil serv

Finance committee  Go ahead, Brian.

Finance committee  Well, thank you for letting us speak tonight. My name is Jim Scott, and I am the president of the Equitas Disabled Soldiers Funding Society, referred to as Equitas, which is a non-partisan organization supporting a lawsuit going through the Supreme Court of British Columbia by

Veterans Affairs committee  I would add one thing here too, please. We have to talk about the reservists, the young men and women who were in university who signed up to go as volunteers over to Afghanistan and were injured. They may not have injuries that would relieve them of their ability to go to the re

Veterans Affairs committee  We've had a number of amputees stay with us, and it's surprising how much care it takes just to put them into the washroom when the washroom is not big enough to get the wheelchair in. They have to sit on a stool that is pushed through by their spouse, and the wheelchair has to g

Veterans Affairs committee  From Equitas, our experience in looking at these 200 files that have gone to a law firm and are representative of claims is that the transfer from DND to Veterans Affairs Canada suggests there seems to be a bit of an attitude that Veterans Affairs Canada is going to screen out bo

Veterans Affairs committee  There's one issue that I would raise. I think it's a great idea that we have a tracking card for people's medical histories and so on, which they can move from one agency to another, but there seems to be a fairly big wall between the Department of National Defence and Veterans A

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much. My name is Jim Scott, and I'm the president of the Equitas society, a forum to underwrite the disbursement costs to have six disabled soldiers represent their issues through the courts on the new Veterans Charter's compensation packages for injuries. Next