Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for inviting the National Association of Federal Retirees to speak today. I am joining you from Ottawa, Ontario, the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe peoples. The National Association of Federal Retirees represents 175,000 members, includin

Veterans Affairs committee  I can, but I will ask Ms. Montague to fill out my answer, because she has a deeper knowledge of the matter.

Veterans Affairs committee  We cannot deal with the matter in its entirety. Therefore, we have decided as an association to focus on women in the Canadian Armed Forces and in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That is why we created this committee with a group of other concerned women. Ms. Montague, do you

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll leave that for Sayward because she has been working with the group that has come out with all this information.

Veterans Affairs committee  It depends on who you want to reach. I haven't heard of social media being used to educate the youth. That is critical. If we could use social media to educate, that would be a start. For other generations, there are other methods. We've found that we are reaching our members

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much, committee members, for inviting the National Association of Federal Retirees to speak today. I would like to begin by recognizing that my colleagues and I are joining you from Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people, wh

Veterans Affairs committee  I think you're muted, Anthony. I think he's trying to unmute.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll give a very general idea of where we took all that information to put on our website. About four or five years ago, we did a number of town hall meetings with veterans and got a whole lot of information about the situations and the difficulties they were facing. A lot was m

Veterans Affairs committee  I think we mentioned this somewhat in the brief that was presented to your committee, but I'll let Sayward get into some of the details.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. Thank you, committee members, for inviting the National Association of Federal Retirees to speak today. I would like to begin by recognizing that I and my colleagues are joining you from Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people, w

Veterans Affairs committee  I believe Patrick can answer that.

Veterans Affairs committee  There's an advisory committee at the public service pension plan, and this has been a hot topic. I was the pensioner representative on that pension advisory committee for a number of years. Our association was the one that first raised it at that committee and has been supporting

Veterans Affairs committee  I can tell you what I think, but I'm going to ask Mr. Imbeau to weigh in, since he is the expert. I think the $150 million was meant to appease people. My sense is that it wasn't meant to make up for the fact that survivors would not be receiving pension benefits. Someone menti

Veterans Affairs committee  Could I add something? That's a good point you raise. I did mention in my opening statement that we were quite involved with women veterans research and engagement. I will make sure that the question is posed. Maybe there is some information there. If there is, we will certainly

Veterans Affairs committee  Patrick.