Veterans Affairs committee  The military family resource centres offer a good range of resources everywhere in Canada. This could be very useful to veterans and their families. Do not hesitate to use them.

Veterans Affairs committee  You raised an interesting point. However, you need solid experience to do that. The operational stress injury social support group, the OSISS, is made up of supportive peers who already do a great deal. We can't ask these people who were themselves injured to take on this respons

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that is still the case, unfortunately. We have done a lot of awareness-raising over the past few years with civilian employers and even public institutions. You would be very surprised to know how few people, even within provincial political institutions and the public admi

Veterans Affairs committee  In the final analysis, the veteran is accompanied in his journey by family members. Families experience all of the years in the Canadian armed forces with the military members. Over the past 25 years, Canadian military families have also been operational. Without them, the armed

Veterans Affairs committee  You raise an excellent point. That is what our centre's employment assistance team tries to do with employers, colleges and universities in the Quebec region, among others. We try to transfer military skills in order to obtain as many equivalences as possible. However, there has

Veterans Affairs committee  Please go ahead.

Veterans Affairs committee  ... their career?

Veterans Affairs committee  I agree with you. I'll give you an absurd example. Military police officers are rejected by provincial police forces. A police officer is a police officer. And yet, they are not accepted. Consequently many military police officers become security guards. And yet they have the nec

Veterans Affairs committee  There is a difference between the military family resource centres—there are 31 of those centres in Canada—and all of the Veterans Affairs Canada offices. The resource centres were created to provide services to military families, but the clientele expanded over the years because

Veterans Affairs committee  You are correct. These are veterans who were released for medical reasons as of November 2014. Those who were released for medical reasons before 2014 do not have access to our services. There really are two categories.

Veterans Affairs committee  Good afternoon, and thank you very much for having invited me to this meeting. This is a first for me, so please be indulgent if I stray from protocol at times. My name is Marie-Claude Michaud, and I am the chief executive officer of the Valcartier Family Centre. I have been wor