Veterans Affairs committee  I'm afraid I'm not completely familiar with how a veteran would obtain his own medical file. If it has been transferred from National Defence to Library and Archives Canada, my belief is he would have to obtain the records from Library and Archives Canada if they're in possession

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. While clearly the Government of Canada has a leadership role to play in remembrance, remembrance is not just about ceremonies or events that are organized by the federal government. It is actually about Canadians themselves paying tribute to those who have served Cana

Veterans Affairs committee  We had 1,463 responses to our evaluation from teachers, both those who had ordered and those who had chosen not to, and 98% of them said that it met their curriculum needs and the learning levels of their students.

Veterans Affairs committee  There were significant numbers across the country. We were gratified last year with a very dramatic increase in the province of Quebec. It went up approximately 200%. I don't have the actual numbers with me. Of course, by far the largest number was in Ontario, simply as a functio

Veterans Affairs committee  It's a good question in a couple of respects. Our website is listed on the bottom of it--www.veterans.gc.ca--but you're quite correct, there isn't a link directly to Facebook. Encouraging them to go directly to Facebook I don't think is in this year's. We may have done that last

Veterans Affairs committee  I know Peter's writing this down, because we have the citations of all Canada's Victoria Cross recipients on our website, but you're right, there is nothing we're doing specifically to encourage people to go there and find them. That's something we can easily do. We post periodic

Veterans Affairs committee  No, there isn't. The programs we have are for Canadian veterans and allied veterans from conflicts in which Canadians participated.

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, thank you for coming back to that, because I think last week, or maybe the week before, we launched on our website a brand-new web feature in time for Women's History Month. It is called “Women at War”. It is in fact a feature that pays tribute to the service of women t

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, yes. There are not necessarily plans in the works. There's actually a great deal being done now to recognize black Canadian veterans. I mentioned that we have a relatively small number of special features on our website paying tribute to groups of veterans. One of the

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll start by saying that any veteran who dies as a result of their military service--so if they die as a result of an illness or injury for which they have a disability pension or disability award--Veterans Affairs will provide funeral and burial assistance without regard to the

Veterans Affairs committee  It usually doesn't take very long. That program is administered for us by the Last Post Fund, a not-for-profit corporation with offices across the country. Their staff can do it very quickly. As you say, it's a very difficult time for the family, and the biggest challenge and unf

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay, there are some good ones there. The Boer War, the South African War, is something that we in fact commemorate. I think if you look at the Canada Remembers Times this year and last year and the year before, you will see we have material on the South African War. We think it

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I would say that's the case. We can't fix what we don't know.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are a number of them coming up over the next few years. There are significant anniversaries that we recognize every year. A couple were mentioned earlier, which are the Battle of Britain, D-Day, Merchant Navy Day, and National Peacekeepers' Day on August 9 every year, or