Veterans Affairs committee  I'd just like to say thank you very much. I sure hope you all put your heads together and stop just running around the tree and not coming up with some kind of solution to support everybody. Kevin, thank you for your time. Tracy, thank you for supporting him. We appreciate you

Veterans Affairs committee  No, I have never been contacted.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would have to say that, based on my experience in corrections—I can't speak about the military or the RCMP—now that we have more women in the service working in male institutions, why there are low-income females, I really and truly don't know. I don't know.

Veterans Affairs committee  This is going to sound, probably, not correct, but like Kevin said, men seem to last a lot longer in our professions than females do. I have no idea why. I don't know if it's family. I just don't know, but the women don't seem to do 20, 15 or even 30 years of service in correctio

Veterans Affairs committee  I agree 100%, yes. You have to remember that, when you go to your retirement course, they're talking about you and your spouse. They're not talking about the day you retire or three months later when your spouse leaves you and now, all of a sudden, here's what you can and can't d

Veterans Affairs committee  That's exactly what it is, Mr. Caputo. Until it affects you, you don't hear anything about it. I was very fortunate, unlike Kevin. I went to two retirement courses, one about four years before I retired and another one about a year before I retired. It was just a repeat of the sa

Veterans Affairs committee  Very much so, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  You know, when I was 20 years old, I don't know if I would have heard that: Guess what. If you retire after 37.5 years and you've protected your pension because you've paid off your spouse, and you meet somebody after you retire, they're not entitled to your pension. I don't th

Veterans Affairs committee  I found that out after I called my pension provider. I wanted to put Kelly on, and that's when they told me I couldn't. They just said no. Another thing I want to bring up here is that, with my ex-wife, I ended up having to pay her an awful lot of money to protect my pension tha

Veterans Affairs committee  I was never told that. That was something I learned recently. The pension people never told me what Kelly would get if I paid in for two years, three years or six months. They never told me whether I would get that money back if she passed before me.

Veterans Affairs committee  It has just made us try to figure out why. If I stayed married to my wife, who cheated on me, and I lived common-law with Kelly for the next 20 years, when I passed, my ex-wife, who cheated on me, would be entitled to my pension benefits. It just does not make sense. Kelly and

Veterans Affairs committee  I just think it's so unfair that Kelly and I have chosen to fall in love and we want to support each other, and it's just unfortunate that if I should pass before her, I can't leave her anything. That is so demeaning. I understand the retired gentleman from the military. I resp

Veterans Affairs committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for letting me speak to the committee. My name is Pat Boudreau. I started my career as a correctional officer in 1977. I retired on January 30, 2015, after 37.5 years of service. My career was good, but not without challenges. At times, my job was