Veterans Affairs committee  In some cases, yes; in some cases, no. I know.... I've helped veterans with VAC. They get a civilian case manager, and a lot of what they actually need is not carried out. When they end up with a military-background case manager who understands what that veteran is actually go

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a very hard question to answer, because every veteran has a different story, and that story dictates which way they're going to go. You mentioned Veterans Affairs. Again, Veterans Affairs doesn't work with veterans who are not clients. It's hard for a veteran who got out

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know how you can make it simpler. It is very simple. As I said earlier, over in the training building, turn around and have an office for release. Let the member go in there and have his qualifications transcribed before he walks out the door, because once he walks out th

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there should be something prior to getting out so that the members to be able to take their UER—their unit employment record—and walk into an office over at the training building, as an example, and say, “I'd like all of this transcribed to show what I can do when I get o

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for your support, sir. From what I've heard from my veterans—I'm calling them “my” veterans just because that's who I talk with a lot—they are not really getting the outfits to listen. I'm talking about VAC and I'm talking about the military. You've got two different

Veterans Affairs committee  My recommendation is that there must be checks and balances. When you turn around and tell a veteran that they can do a priority hiring and stuff like that within the government.... I went through all of that. I went through the priority hiring. I lucked out—like I said, I'm a do

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much. We are the Persian Gulf Veterans of Canada. There are approximately 5,000 of us. We are trying to get recognition for our wartime service during the Persian Gulf war. That was over 32 years ago. Until this day, we are still not recognized for the service du

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Veterans Affairs committee  Good evening, and thank you very much for inviting me to the hearing on a national strategy for veterans employment after service. I was a weapons systems technician in the air force for almost 32 years. My trade was working with munitions, aircraft weapon systems and bomb dispo

Veterans Affairs committee  I would like to say something here, please. I've been listening to everybody talk here today and listening to where the questions are being directed. As I said in my opening statement, the smaller veterans groups that are not bricks and mortar have been almost totally ignored i

Veterans Affairs committee  I heard today that we have grant writers, we have webmasters out there who take care and make all of these really nice web pages. The smaller groups don't have that luxury of having grant writers and webmasters, or can't afford to pay for all of these people who can do these jobs

Veterans Affairs committee  I echo that.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, sir. COVID is having a big effect on a lot of them. During Christmas, for example, I was talking to three different veterans who because of COVID can't go out anymore. They have PTSD, high anxiety, and I'm trying to talk them off the ledge. That's where my Christmas w