Veterans Affairs committee  Support and understand.

Veterans Affairs committee  When you start seeing a person fall short, you should step in and help them. You don't wait until they hit rock bottom and then decide to help them.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's before the release. As I said, that internal support should be there prior to these men and women being released. While they're still an active service member and you see they're not doing normal active duty they would on an everyday basis—

Veterans Affairs committee  —get involved then. Get to know them then. Figure out why they're changing: what's their story and what's going on? Then put your implements in there to help them instead of transferring them to JPSU just to see if they're going to come back to get thrown back on the lines to do

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Why should Lionel had to have come for help? The military medically released him. You guys already knew there was an issue with Lionel. You knew there was a problem, so why should he have had to come for help? Is that not the job of your guys, to make sure that these men and wome

Veterans Affairs committee  Lionel reached out for help in many different ways. I'm sure if you guys look through his file or anything.... He's been in many different provinces across Canada: Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. I'm not sure how you want me to answer this question, but this is how I'm

Veterans Affairs committee  They think you're going to boot them out the door even quicker. I don't believe that it would have helped Lionel in either situation. If he had gone for the help prior to, earlier on, or whenever he decided to come out and say.... When you guys realized there was a problem there,

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. There was a report written in The Chronicle Herald, Nova Scotia's broadcast newspaper—and I'm sure it was in many newspapers too—about the controversy where the province called the inquiry and not the Government of Canada, and that there might be some information or things t

Veterans Affairs committee  Next to none. My brother's pension was released a month after his death. My brother had been out of the military for 18 months. In July of 2015, my brother was medically released. On January 3, he committed suicide, taking along my mother, my first-born niece, and his wife, my si

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay. Can you recite that please, quickly?

Veterans Affairs committee  To tell you the truth, yes, I am tired of hearing politicians argue and battle back and forth and belittle each other over who's done what and why we're here and the reason for it, because, at the end of the day, pointing fingers is not going to get us to answers, and it is not g

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, everyone, for having me here. “I offered you peace. I showed you mercy.” Exhibit A is my family tragedy; exhibit B is my life now. When VAC fails a veteran, it fails the family, community, province, and nation, both emotionally and financially. My family tragedy was