Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Brassard, we will certainly manage. Again, we appreciate the money that we have been provided through the VOESF. The $30 million was based on expenses that a branch would have incurred in the initial five months of the closure. Based on that average expenditure, $5,000 times

Veterans Affairs committee  We will forgo those reserves. The $14 million received will be for Legion branches only.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. I was approached, in fact, today, by a branch in Nova Scotia that had filed their T2 with CRA and received a response that they could not accept that filing because the branch was neither registered nor incorporated. Our Legion branches are not incorporated. The orga

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to the Royal Canadian Legion to appear before you today. The Legion is a large national organization united around a common vision. For the first time in our almost 100 years of existence in serving veterans in Canada, we faced a challenge

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, thank you very much. Mr. McInnis will speak on behalf of the Legion, but thank you for that invitation.