Veterans Affairs committee  Right now there's no card that has your photo on it unless you served over 10 years. I think anyone who has honourably served in the military and been honourably released, whether reserve or full reg force, should be entitled to that photo card.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't really have anything to add. I'd just like to thank you for letting me speak for a little while to add my tiny input to this.

Veterans Affairs committee  I live over in the Legion apartments here in Toronto. A service officer who lives there is trying to do a campaign to write members of Parliament and bring the issue about Sunnybrook to their attention. Korean War veterans and World War II veterans are not entitled to Sunnybrook.

Veterans Affairs committee  We should go back to the monthly medical pension. For example, I did a video interview with retired Major Mark Campbell, who literally died on an operating table three different times in Afghanistan. He lost both legs. He got $250,000. They brought him home and said, “Here you go

Veterans Affairs committee  I want to quickly go back to the conversation Walter had with Mr. Clarke. One problem I've seen is over-medication of veterans. I am a living example of what can happen. I was so over-medicated that my liver started shutting down on me. I don't take any medication at all at this

Veterans Affairs committee  In 1996 when I went to the Veterans Affairs office in Calgary, I was called a civilian. I was told I wasn't a veteran. I was told by the pensions advocate that this is what I was going to get and to not come back ever again. The mindset there, despite the fact I had served in the

Veterans Affairs committee  There are different groups out there. There is Veterans Voices of Canada run by Al Cameron. He does interviews with World War II and Korean War veterans. I'm doing the occasional interviews at a local Legion branch here. I've done interviews with Mike Holmes, Enrico Colantoni, an

Veterans Affairs committee  I have one knee that 25% of my cartilage was removed from in 1989. The other knee was run over by an MLVW. The rear tire hit it. Also, Veterans Affairs sent me for one of those psychological reassessments. I've been sent for two. At the second one, the psychologist told me that I

Veterans Affairs committee  I've gone through just what Walter talked about. I've seen that. When I was serving in the military, there was this form of “suck it up”. I saw a lot of the people who used to go to the MIR because they had health problems be called “MIR commandos”. We need to stop that. The fa

Veterans Affairs committee  No, I don't have any other sources of income. What I've been told is that if I make any money at all, even a penny, it will be claw backed from me immediately. That's with Veterans in Politics Canada, a non-profit organization I formed. There's no money made at all. There's my mo

Veterans Affairs committee  I served in the Canadian military from October 2, 1986 to August 3, 1995. I joined the military a few months after I graduated high school, shortly after my 19th birthday. Barely a month after my 21st birthday, I was sitting over in Iran, only days after the eight-year war betwee