Veterans Affairs committee  That's a long-winded officer's answer, Marc.

Veterans Affairs committee  Exactly. It doesn't have the right stamp. The service dog act in B.C. does not measure outcomes of training or standards of training. They only have what they call the “public access test”. They don't assess or look at the organization that I got my dog from and the standard tha

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. At the same time as B.C. was doing work on their act, there were members sitting on the CGSB who did not disclose to CGSB that B.C. was working on developing an act, and vice versa. They did not tell the B.C. government that they were working with CGSB to develop a national

Veterans Affairs committee  There's no oversight in Alberta or B.C. over the act and how it's implemented, including the production of IDs and the assessments. There's no oversight at all.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would ask all the producers to provide all of their documents, their standards, their training methodology—all of that information. All of that could be deposited into one central location. The standard could then be pulled out of all that information. The reluctance of industr

Veterans Affairs committee  You can call me on Monday morning. I will be heading home Sunday from Manitoba with my new service dog, and I guarantee you that when I get on BC Ferries on Monday, I will be denied access to the passenger decks because my service dog is from Courageous Companions and not Assista

Veterans Affairs committee  It's going to happen.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, they're for that organization's input only. ADI has their standard, and it's for their members and it's not public. There's only one standard right now that is open for other industry users to use within the service dog world, and that's the Mehgan search and rescue standard

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't disagree with Ms. Moss at all. If it takes a year, it takes a year. If it takes two, it takes two. It needs to be done right. As an end-user and somebody who's not involved with the operation of a service dog organization, if it takes more than two years, I'm totally sati

Veterans Affairs committee  I want to see the independent process of that impartial third party take on the standard. To use a quote from John F. Kennedy, hopefully they can speak softly and carry a big stick to keep the industry in line and out of meddling in the process. There are ways they could particip