Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Brassard. There are a number of suggestions throughout the brief, based on the survey we conducted with members across the country. As Virginia noted, we need a simplification of the process. People find that there are many new benefits, but there are many differ

Veterans Affairs committee  Specialized tasks are more difficult to recruit for; they demand more. The level of confidence that you want for a pension disability advocate, a reviewer, would be higher. Those particular categories would be in wide demand in society and therefore harder to recruit. The chall

Veterans Affairs committee  I would just like to note that we're providing information and asking questions, but we're not getting answers or a plan. If I heard your question correctly, I don't think there's any consultation on the plan to fix the backlog.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. There are a number of areas we wanted to report on from the interviews with our case managers. First of all, we asked them about their current caseloads. Here's what they told us. We would like to read this into the record. This is how many individual veterans they a