Veterans Affairs Canada

Yeah, I, I, I agree with a lot of what Jamie said.

I mean, it's gonna be horrible for the families, but we're not doing anything really concrete for the veterans here and, and v- in fact, Veterans Affairs Canada's clinched things tighter here.

Um, now a lot of the reduction in budget is to do with, like, the cannabis side of things, and honestly, that's all a scam anyway.

I mean, that's just...

Thousands of more Canadian personnel came home wounded, physically and psychologically.

Post-traumatic stress disorder and operational stress injuries became a defining and difficult legacy of that mission, one that Veterans Affairs Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces have spent years, and continue to spend years, working to address.

Every fallen soldier rep- was repatriated to Canada during the mission traveled the same route from CFB Trenton along what has become known as the Highway of Heroes, a stretch of Highway 401 in Ontario, where for over a decade, ordinary Canadians stood on the overpasses in every season and every kind of weather simply to see the procession pass and pay their respects.

No one organized it from the top down.

Ottawa has decided that a land acknowledgement also needs to become a part of it.

According to reporting based on an internal Veterans Affairs Canada memo, the monument will include a land acknowledgement connected to reconciliation with the Algonquin language text reportedly costing nearly, ready? Are you ready for this? $30,000 in translation services.

I'm going to say this plainly and I'm going to mean it.

It doesn't belong there.

So if a woman paid into the EI premium for nine years on a part-time hours, has it better? and sorry, has a better chance than even being told no, she's actually the person who contributed, she gets it, and yet she can still be refused.

Now let's take Veterans Affairs Canada, because I know this one intimately.

34,000 pending disability claims, friends.

34,000.