Government Operations committee  I believe some tools are there for us, but again, it's on the member to seek them out. One option given to me was to go to the JPSU, but I didn't want my file switching hands that many times, so I opted out of it.

Government Operations committee  It's the joint personnel support unit. That's where they send injured members to possibly heal, and if they don't, they end up releasing them. I've heard from my friends who were in that unit that it was a little smoother and helped them a lot more. Again, because of my five-mont

Government Operations committee  Yes, absolutely, because there's an equivalent. For me there's just police forces. Any job with a gun, that's basically what I'm qualified to do right now. For those other trades, they have military courses that can be granted on the civilian side, so to have to send them back

Government Operations committee  Absolutely, because when you receive a medical discharge, you're not prepared for it. You have a lot of things to decide, even where you're going to move to once you're released from the military and everything that goes along with where you're going to live. There are so many th

Government Operations committee  No, there have to be options.

Government Operations committee  I see a minimum of 12 months. Six months is far too quick to make all those decisions. They give us the option to appeal the decision, and they can extend that up to three years right now, but I appealed mine and I got a six-month extension. That didn't do much for me.

Government Operations committee  It would be great if they had somebody in the military who would look at the courses you've accrued through your career and say, “This is the civilian equivalent of it.” For instance, I had to take an ethics class in college. I was deployed overseas twice. I carried live rounds

Government Operations committee  There isn't anything. It was up to me. I had to go and get a PLAR as part of one of my optional credits. I ended up finding a teacher who was willing to just write off my military experience and give me that credit. Without that, I wouldn't have graduated. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  No. Well, there are a lot of courses. Anything that says “leadership” in the military should just have the wording changed to “management” for the civilian sector. Other than that, there are not too many courses that we do in the military, especially for my trade—the infantry—t

Government Operations committee  I believe everybody is unique. I haven't spoken to many people from the other fields, but they usually have positions that are trades, so getting out of the military, there's a civilian equivalent of it. Whether that position is government-run or not, they're all unique, every si

Government Operations committee  Slow the whole thing down. I had five months from the time I found out my release date to the time I'd be in school. In that five months, I had so many life-changing things to decide on with no or very little support doing it. I was just another face, another number. I was just s

Government Operations committee  Now I am a full-time student, semi-retired. I've done all the paperwork up to activating my priority hiring. I'm going to university because I need the degree that is required of me, and I'm going to have to activate my priority hiring before I've finished my schooling because o

Government Operations committee  Right now, I'm not happy with the services I've received from VAC so I've cut them off from doing what I need to do. While I was there on my placement, I believe I learned all the skills I needed to take care of myself. I'm doing a better job than they did in the year prior.

Government Operations committee  I emailed them twice, Madam.

Government Operations committee  The first time was to do with my disability benefits. It took 18 months to receive approval, and that was far exceeding their 16-week goal they had at the time. The second time was when I wasn't happy with the services, and they just said that I needed more details to sort out th