Veterans Affairs committee  I would say that most of the stigma is after they enter the relationship, especially when there are major age differences of 10-plus years. They're labelled gold diggers for that. The others are pretty much of a similar age. I can also see some patterns between couples or survi

Veterans Affairs committee  I think most of the stress is really, as I mentioned earlier, the double hit they get. They have financial struggles and at the same time they've lost their spouse. Having said that, some emotional support from people like social workers would really help them as they go through

Veterans Affairs committee  That is a very good question. For that, I shared it in my report and my recommendations. That recommendation, or that insight, was from the veterans I talked to and from the survivors I talked to for this. I'll leave it to the standing committee to make those decisions. As a res

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. I would say that the small sample size is the reality of that, but I think that in the quality of the conversations we had with the veterans and the survivors, we covered some of the ground that we wanted to in going back to identifying the reasons a

Veterans Affairs committee  We rely on the second generation. I briefly mentioned that, so if they can help us to set up.... Let's say video conferencing is good, but I did have some interviews done on forms. They don't have the Internet access but can join the call and then we set up our one-hour telephone

Veterans Affairs committee  We tried with 200-plus Legions, but there were a lot who didn't respond to us. For those who responded to us, we only know they cancelled all their meetings during that time.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would suggest that there would be some data triangulations that we would have to put together. When I am doing my qualitative research, I know that StatsCan is also putting out their numbers. I think a certainly it would be nice to see both datasets compared to each other. That

Veterans Affairs committee  I submitted the full version of the report to CIMVHR, so they have my.... I don't think I made it public, but I'm happy to share the entire report with the committee here.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would say it took us in total six months or more, around that, to reach out to the participants or to recruit the participants. To interview them usually takes around an hour to two maximum. Our conversations are online. It took us probably two to three months to analyze all th

Veterans Affairs committee  I would say that all the military spouses sacrifice in many ways. Based on my studies or interviews with these 10 individuals, to some extent they're very upset about that age limit. It sounds arbitrary to them. They've said, “If I get married at the age of 59, what's the differe

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, two participants really found that, especially in the disparities if the spouse is a little bit younger than the veteran, 10 years or 20 years younger. When they get together they worry about receiving that social stigma. One said they were getting away from that stigma beca

Veterans Affairs committee  I would use this term—that they don't have the “literacy” to navigate through all the government websites. I know that there are a lot of programs supporting them, but the challenge is that they might be 60 or 70 years old. Every month they're getting a paycheque or a cheque from

Veterans Affairs committee  We briefly worked with the Veterans Affairs office communications department, and we identified—I forget the exact number—over 200 individuals. We sent them invitations to participate, but it turned out just a few came back to us. In that way we identified some addresses to direc

Veterans Affairs committee  They are across the country. We got individuals from Atlantic Canada, Ontario and B.C., and couples from Alberta. We have a pretty good selection with those 10 people. Our recruitment strategies were through multiple networks. We ran some Facebook ads and also tried to join some

Veterans Affairs committee  These were all military veterans.