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Post by Sandman Mon 12 Aug 2019, 9:23 pm

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EQUALITY IN RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL SACRIFICE

August 12, 2019
Volume 26 Issue 8

By Michael Blais

The Federal election is looming and once again veterans will consider voting for the party that best serves their needs. The past four years have been bittersweet and while there have been significant improvements on many files of contention, the proverbial elephant in the room, the Pension for Life, remains a major point of controversy.

Many NVC veterans continue to feel disenfranchised, betrayed, perhaps victims of a grotesque bait and switch game Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party were waging during the past election in exchange for our votes.

I can recall travelling to Belleville, ON, to witness Trudeau’s presentation of the Liberal Party veterans’ platform. Objectively, I was pleased. The Canadian Veterans Advocacy was primarily founded on the principle of restoring Canada’s sacred obligation to acknowledge and respect national sacrifice equally, without discrimination or reservation to the Pension Act Standards that I,
and a majority of VACs clients receive.

Never Pass a Fault, eh?

There must be equality in recognition of national sacrifice.

It was to these standards alone which we spoke to our current Prime Minister. Our first encounter was rather tense, to the point where the Liberal Veterans Affairs critic at the time felt compelled to leap to his feet and inform me that I could not speak to the “leader” in such a manner. Do tell! Prime Minister Trudeau, to his credit, never broke eye contact, raised his hand, tersely told Jim Karygiannis to sit down, and then asked me to continue.

To summarize, Mr. Trudeau, if want to be the Prime Minister of Canada, you damn well better know what national sacrifice is, and your role as a the guardian of the torch, to restore the sacred obligation before you are called to send Canada’s sons and daughters into harm’s way. The message appeared to resonate and after years of confronting Conservative and NDP resistance, there was progress toward advancing the equality cause.

Subsequently, Mr. Trudeau extended an invitation to meet on Parliament Hill after the Remembrance Day national ceremony to discuss the Pension for Life. It was a very special day, with an infinitely more amicable meeting, wherein the NVC LSA vs. Pension Act “faults” were clearly defined, and a singular resolution was championed: to “re-establish” equality
to the Pension Act standards!

Accordingly, when Mr. Trudeau declared the Liberal Party would “re-establish” the Pension for Life, I was in fact pleased. There was but only one lifetime pension to “re-establish” and I can assure CVA supporters, this was the only solution we spoke of. The choice in wording was not random, the promise was definitive and at the time it appeared sincere enough to convince many veterans, including myself, to cast votes for the Liberal Party in the 2015 Canadian federal election.

Was it a grotesque deception?

Today, or in the very near future, as the “Pension for Life” notification letters arrive, veterans will be profoundly disappointed, just as I am.

What the Liberal Party has provided is certainly not what Trudeau promised to veterans in exchange for their votes - is it? Thirty-cents on the dollar when compared to Pension Act provisions?

Is it better than nothing? Is it enough to retain veterans’ votes? Certainly the Liberal’s Pension for Life is an improvement over any Conservative or NDP initiative in the past. Which begs the question: what is Andrew Scheer or Jagmeet Singh’s position on the Pension for Life? Will they seize the opportunity Trudeau has presented? Will the Conservative Party or the NDP step up and pledge to restore the sacred obligation equally, and without reservation? In doing so, will they recoup veterans’ votes lost during the Harper or Mulcair era?

Or will veterans be dismissed as irrelevant, subject to the same litany of lip service every Remembrance Day or battlefield commemoration and promptly be forgotten the next morning?







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Post by Viper Wed 04 Sep 2019, 7:47 pm

Michael Blais was live. Sept 4. 2019

Mefloquine. There will be a rally on the hill on the 19th of September. I am not well enough to travel at this time, long drive, hard on spine sitting that long and between loading up the car and scooter, Im done for the day after. But.... if I am well enough, I will go! That is my attitude. yes? can
do and is better than bletch any day and if you live day to day, cest le vive... .





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Post by Jackal Mon 09 Sep 2019, 6:28 pm

Michael Blais was live. Sept 9. 2019

Shot over... Blazer Report. Caseworkers spend half their time doing "required paperwork? Some up to seventy percent of their time? Grrrrr, so much for that mantra of strrrrrrrrrreamlining services, eh? Sometimes i think the senior bureaucrats are sabotaging the liberals and as most were appointed by the conservatives, Fantino no less. well, go figure. same standards, eh?

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Post by Rekert Fri 11 Oct 2019, 9:04 pm

10.11.2019

Blazer report 10 10 19 shot over....

.....Each camp has offered a slate of pledges tailored towards veterans and military members. The Conservatives are campaigning on pledges like enshrining a covenant in legislation between the government and veteran service members, clearing a backlog of benefit applications within two years, and striking an independent inquiry over Canadian Armed Forces members administered the controversial malaria drug mefloquine.

The Liberals, meanwhile, have pitched their own plans, which include a rapid-response mental health service for veterans, up to $3,000 in free counselling before a disability claim is required, and automatic approval for the most common disability applications from veterans — for conditions like depression, arthritis and post-traumatic stress disorder.....





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Post by Cool~Way Fri 18 Oct 2019, 11:20 am

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VETERANS AND MEDICAL CANNABIS
October 18, 2019
By Michael L Blais CD

President & Founder Canadian Veterans Advocacy


The issue of Medical Cannabis (MC) is ever evolving, or devolving as in the case of Veterans Affairs Canada under the Liberal government.

Background: Consequential to an alarming Auditor General’s MC expenditure probe, the Liberals launched a three pronged review inclusive of providers, doctors and yes, veterans. Concerned about privacy breaches, the department requested the need for me to identify ten veterans prescribed MC who were willing to travel to Ottawa (at VAC’s expense) and meet Minister Kent Hehr to discuss the impact MC was having on their lives.

I endeavoured to ensure comprehensive participation; young, old, war veterans, UN peacekeepers, male, female, NCO, officer, representative of both mental and physical trauma. I hoped through inclusion we would collectively convince Minister Hehr of MC as an effective treatment option for harshly traumatized veterans and to assure him that the policy conforms to Veterans Affairs Canada’s mandate “to improve the quality of lives of our veterans.”

The discussions conducted at Center Block, Parliament Hill, were enlightening. Minister Hehr appeared engaged, compassionate and empathetic. However, the bureaucrats followed and it soon became clear they were more interested in mitigating MC expenditures, which were identified in the Auditor General report, and not alleviating the mental and/or physical trauma of veterans.

The new policies to follow were oblivious to our discussions, bereft of compassion or empathy, and mainly designed to curtail costs. The General Practitioner’s prescription, if over the three grams of dried cannabis flower (per day) limit, would not be fully honoured.

Opiates? No problem, but for additional cannabis referrals, and for those sustaining mental and physical trauma, referrals in both fields would be required. The time consuming, stress/pain-inducing cycle would repeat every two years. Oft times, extensive travel would be required.

Despite forcing a disabled veteran through a series of unnecessary, resource wasting “hoops”, VAC retains the right to deny/restrict, systematic exclusion without representation, contrary to the Veterans Bill of Rights which supposedly ensures he/she and third-party doctors are involved in any decisions.

Veterans seeking MC are often deemed the “Forlorn Hopes”. There are no alternatives; the best “hope” scenario is a miracle. In the interim, quality of life is dictated by mitigating pain, preferably without those addictive, soul-destroying pharmaceuticals. For many, before the availability of MC, the daily regimen included maximum doses of powerful, mind distorting opiates and/or antipsychotic medication, Codeine, Percocet, Oxycontin, Morphine, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (which can induce gastrointestinal bleeding), Lyrica for neuropathic pain, sleeping pills, and other drugs that may negate pain but often destroy the self and the family unit in the process.

Some 10,000 veterans are being prescribed medical cannabis. Around 1,700 have been granted an exemption over the three-gram per day limit. One can only wonder of the 10,000 people, how many were prescribed over the three grams per day, have been arbitrarily denied and consequentially, provided opiates or persona distorting “mind” drugs to mitigate pain.

I have been pain/mobility disabled for almost three decades. While never abused, opiates rendered me emotionless, depressed, obese, incapable of feeling true empathy or love and free falling through the cycle of despair. Medical cannabis helped me reduce the daily regimen of maximum doses of opiates, disrupted the addiction cycle, afforded reintegration without being perpetually narco-distorted, to embrace a life now cherished. This generation, bloodied of mind and body by war in Afghanistan, is professing relief not through pharmaceuticals, but medical cannabis.


Veterans can provide the scientific proof we need to curb the problem of over-prescribing pharmaceuticals. Where else in Canada is there a cadre with such a wide spectrum of the vicious mental and physical trauma inherent with war? Where else is there a controlled study group provided addictive pharmaceuticals first, then, horrified by the side effects, are now experiencing definitive, real time relief from MC?

Should we not be learning why cannabis is alleviating war induced mental and physical trauma instead of enabling the opiate crisis?

Why are we marginalizing or ignoring the very specialists VAC dictated, those physicians who, unlike VAC, have personally interviewed/examined the veteran before rendering judgment?

VAC’s current MC policy is corrupt on multiple levels, focused on cutting expenses, not providing care to veterans with the level of compassion required.







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Post by Magnum Sat 09 Nov 2019, 8:52 am

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VETERANS AFFAIRS CANADA: STREAMLINING OR BUREAUCRATIC OBSTRUCTION?

November 8, 2019

By Michael Blais


Back in 2011, Minister Steven Blaney would be the first to introduce me to the wondrous farce of streamlining services for veterans. Minister Julian Fantino subsequently took the concept to a new level, by parachuting in former CDS Walter Natynczyk as Deputy Minister to implement a conservative slash and burn agenda with military precision. Minister Erin O’Toole fully embraced the concept, and he supervised the dismantling of VAC through reduction of hundreds of front line employees and by closing district offices at the conclusion of the combat mission in Afghanistan when many veterans of the war were coming forward for assistance.

Veterans were not amused.

Liberal ministers Kent Hehr, Seamus O’Regan, Judy Wilson Raybould and Lawrence MacAuley continued the “streamlining” charade albeit from a liberal perspective. When held to account or challenged on departmental failures, DM Natynzcyk was faithfully at hand, blunting warranted criticism, undertaking the “we must do better” pantomime with varying degrees of sincerity year after year despite his ‘Command’s’ pervasive failures to fulfill the promises which politicians offer to veterans seemingly every election in exchange for our votes.

Veterans were not impressed.

This election is no different. Both the NDP and Conservative party leaders have declared they will clear the backlog if elected. Neither say how or why their efforts would be any different than those which the current government has undertaken. Factually, the Liberals did re-open the district offices as promised. Factually, hundreds of vital staffing positions cruelly negated by the Conservatives have been fulfilled and in theory, as more are employed and trained, the backlog problems should dissipate. The Liberals promised the case managers:client ratio would be reduced from the Conservatives’ untenable 40-1 down to 25-1. Three years later, there has been some progress and VAC claims to have attained a 33-1 ratio.

This is indeed better, but it is far from perfect. Thousands of veterans continue to wait beyond Mr. Trudeau’s promised 16 week threshold. Delays in adjudication on all levels persist, ranging from acknowledgement of mental and physical trauma to the subsequent approval of treatment options for medications. Exclusion and denial.

Q. Why is this?

A. Bureaucratic obstruction.

The National Post recently reported that VAC case managers spend 50% to 70% of their time processing paperwork. Case managers claim they are obstructed in providing expedient service due to “complicated or unnecessary business procedures” and layers of burdensome, unnecessary documentation. Veterans Affairs is not an insurance company. The obstructive, resource wasting, unnecessary documentation the DM and senior mandarins have implemented is adversely affecting the department’s ability to conform to the government’s promises. Let’s consider VAC employees to be the proverbial canary-in-the-coal-mine, as they sounded the alarm in respect to the catastrophic impact Conservative cuts would have on the veterans community. They are now once again sounding the alarm.

Q. Who suffers the consequences?

A.Veterans.

Who can blame veterans who become profoundly disappointed when seeking “promised” election entitlements, only to confront a system seemingly designed not to streamline, nor to accelerate due process in conformance of the Liberal mandate, but rather it is designed to complicate the process with layers of unnecessary documentation, multiple physicians reports and abysmal delays, far beyond the promised adjudication time frames.

Who is to blame?: Inept ministers or the adversities inherent within the cycle of ministerial replacement? The Liberals appointed four ministers during their last mandate none of whom proved capable of effecting the promised changes on backlogs, adjudication times or expedient service.

There has been one common and continuous leadership element at Veterans Affairs throughout these ministerial rotations:Deputy Minister Walter Natynczyk.

I admire the general’s record of military service, but after years of performance-objective failures, I personally no longer feel he is capable of demonstrating the leadership required to bring the department up to the standards promised. Bureaucratic progress on key issues has been glacial, and often obstructed by mandarins dictating policies corrupted by the “insurance company” mentality approach, which includes forcing veterans to cope with stringent processing documentation requirements designed to frustrate, obstruct, delay and deny.

Consequently, it is no surprise the trust between veterans and VAC’s bureaucratic leadership has been broken.

Without significant changes at VAC’s leadership, the status quo will remain.

Q. Who suffers the consequences?

A. Tragically, the disabled veterans and their families.





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Post by Masefield Wed 11 Dec 2019, 3:49 pm

Michael Blais was live on Facebook Dec 10th 2019

10-dec-19 Blazer Report
Equali8ty in recognition of service as applied to income lose replacement, widows, supplementary retirement benefits, care givers benefits... .

Call to arms. One veteran. One standard.


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Post by Starman Thu 12 Dec 2019, 9:07 am

Michael Blais was live. Dec 11th 2019

11 Dec 19 Blazer Report. VAC BUDGET supplement - letter campaign to those deployed over Christmas.




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Post by Colter Tue 17 Dec 2019, 8:29 am

16 Dec 19 Blazer report - Contact... Minister's mandate letter

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Post by Zoneforce Wed 18 Dec 2019, 8:43 pm


Michael Blais was live. Dec 18. 2019

Blazer Report! SISIP article re benefit denial and homeless vets



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Post by Lionfield Fri 20 Dec 2019, 6:29 pm

Ho ho ho... Blazer Report 20-12-19
Article on OVO, Seasons greetings.

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CALLING ALL VETERANS

December 20, 2019

By Michael Blais


Veterans will remember that at the height of the Conservative administration’s mandate, the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman (OVO) was created. Colonel (Ret’d) Patrick Stogran CD was chosen to be the first ombudsman, a choice PM Harper soon came to regret. Stogran, ultimately overcome with frustration, resorted to engaging the national media, with a truly extraordinary press conference which was broadcast live throughout the nation.

Prime Minister Harper was not amused.

Ombudsman Stogran’s tenure was not renewed.

Eager to regain control, the PM selected Stogran’s successor wisely. Guy Parent’s passionless, analytical style contrasted vividly against the searing presence of Stogran.

His propensity for accompanying the minister’s entourage on far too many VAC sponsored WW1, WW2, Korean Conflict commemorative trips led to the perception he was more interested in top-shelf travel, accommodations, “sucking up to the minister” rather than serving the wounded. Veterans who should have reached out to the OVO declined, as the level of distrust, whether warranted or not, eventually corrupted the very essence of the veteran-OVO relationship. The next VO soon discovered, this distrust legitimately threatened the OVO’s mandate.

Enter retired naval officer Craig Dalton, a veteran.

Cross country consultation has ensued, with a dedicated effort to reach out to the veterans’ community. Dalton “got an earful” when disenfranchised veterans levied salvos of complaints.

I have met the OVO several times now, with the first meeting being shortly after I dispatched a welcoming email which bluntly defined the state of toxicity which existed within the OVO-veteran relationship and the need for definitive leadership and effective reforms.

Give credit when credit is due! Dalton’s consultation process over time has proven effective and comprehensive, it provides motivation and the catalyst for reform.

Veteran’s voices have resonated.

We met the OVO again -post consultation- on 12 November, Canadian Veterans Advocacy (CVA) Director Sylvain Chartrand joined us. The dialogue was robust; medical cannabis, Reserve Force inequities, mental trauma, VIP provisions, Pension for Life, equality in recognition of national sacrifice to the Pension Act standards.

We spoke to the necessity of standing for One Veteran, One Standard fairness, harmonization of reformative programs to ensure full inclusion, not like the current
New Veterans Charter-Pension Act obstructions designed to exclude and or
deny Canada’s most disabled veterans.

Which are for example, why are SISIP veterans, who are by definition Canada’s most seriously disabled veterans, (as acknowledged by Manulife’s stringent Totally Permanently Impaired status), excluded from the 90% income loss replacement promises

Consequential to consultation, Dalton requested a review of the OVO mandate. Ideally, investigative authority reforms and the provision of reporting to parliament will be embraced to eradicate the levels of distrust, which is generated every time the OVO submits a report to the minister. Other than dispensing vague platitudes and lip service, these reports do nothing to resolve the issues.

Authority restrictions? Please note OVO’s inability to comprehensively investigate Veterans Affairs’ 160 million dollars “accounting” error which deprived 270,000 Pension Act veterans for several years? How many of the WWII and Korean War Pension Act veterans died before justice was served? Were their dependents FULLY compensated? Was anybody at VAC held to account for grotesque negligence of duty?

Dalton is eager to restore the broken trust. He understands where the breaches in trust exist; he is willing to change the dynamics to restore the balance.

We can assist, we can do our part to help him seize the objective. Dalton requested that we refer veterans’ seeking redress through the CVA in respect to VAC’s systematic problems/failures or on a personal level to contact his office directly.

Here is the number: 1-877-330-4343.





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Post by Zoneforce Sat 11 Jan 2020, 8:30 am

Michael Blais was live. (Choose Forward) Facebook Jan 10. 2020

Michael Blais (espritdecorps) Article Jan 10. 2020

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VETERANS - CHOOSING FORWARD?

January 10, 2020
By Michael Blais CD

I spoke briefly with Prime Minister Trudeau after the national Remembrance Day service. I am disabled. Over the years, I have often sat beside the same valiant WWII veteran in the reception line. Now, neither of us is able to stand through the entire service.

“Will we be choosing forward for veterans?” I asked while briefly shaking his the Prime Minister’s hand. “Or will we be forgotten?”

Veterans were acknowledged during the Throne Speech, a vague reference to the billions of dollars the Liberals have committed since 2015 and a promise of continued attention on mental health. Of note, Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) sought an additional $857.6 million in supplementary funds from the treasury this year, spending a total of $5.3 billion on veterans during 2019-20.

How can it be, after committing $5.3 billion this fiscal year, that so many veterans remain disenfranchised?

Because there is no equality in recognition of their national sacrifice?

Because they are subject to divergent levels of respect?

Prime Minister Trudeau promised a Liberal government would re-establish a pension for life (PFL) in exchange for veterans’ votes in 2015, yet the Liberals’ PFL, in respect to national sacrifice provided, abysmally fails to meet the threshold
established with the Pension Act. Consequently, we have Afghanistan War veterans’ sacrifice acknowledged by two disparate pension standards with the Liberals’ much heralded pension for life obscenely bereft at a meagre 30 cents on the dollar.

One war, one standard?

The Liberals’ 2015 pledge to increase TPI (Totally and Permanently Impaired) veterans’ income loss replacement to the 90% threshold is likewise deficient when program equality standards are applied. Restrictions limiting the 90% threshold to ONLY those supported through VAC’s Earnings Loss Replacement Program. Afghanistan War veterans who have sustained the severest degree of mental and/or physical trauma and deemed Totally and Permanently Impaired on release or within Manulife’s two-year assessment period have been excluded and receive only 75% of their military wages through the SISIP Financial program.

There is no equality in recognition of their national sacrifice and, despite the severity of the wounds incurred in war, thousands of veterans have been denied, no, willfully excluded from the promised 15% increase.

One war, one standard?

Other programs are equally delinquent.

The disparity between eligibility standards in respect to the Pension Act’s Exceptional Incapacitation Award and the Permanent Injury Award / Career Impact Allowance are obscene. The New Veterans Charter (NVC) criteria provides far easier access, provides three levels of acknowledgement in respect to their trauma. Afghan War veterans supported by the Pension Act have one and due to stringent criteria designed to exclude, more often than not result in denial.

One war, one standard?

What about the much heralded Combat Injury Award? $75,000 for Afghan War veterans covered under the NVC but not critically injured Afghan War veterans who would certainly qualify had they not been injured/wounded prior to 2006?

One war, one standard?

Caregivers Relief Benefit versus Attendance Allowance? Once again, eligibility criteria disparities abound. There is no singular standard and when inequitable criteria requisites of each program are assessed, many Pension Act recipients are again confronted with exclusion or denial.

The harshest example of inequity is defined on how Canada’s Memorial Cross widows are being treated and the profound consequences therein. I suspect Canadians would be appalled to note that there are some Memorial Cross widows who are living well below the VAC-defined poverty threshold standards.

The New Veterans Charter acknowledged the fault and resolved widows’ despair through income loss replacement provisions and vocational resources … but only to widows whose loved one perished after 2006.

Choose forward?

I would suggest, before we choose forward, we start caring for all veterans equally without discrimination or reservation due to disparate programs. Veterans are not falling through the cracks. They are willfully, through corrupt, inequitable policies, being denied and excluded, forced into a life of poverty and despair. Before we can further advance, we must consolidate and fight for a comprehensive approach that accords equality in recognition of national sacrifice that leaves no veterans behind.

One veteran, one standard?

One war, one standard?

We can do better.



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Post by Spider Thu 23 Jan 2020, 7:51 am

Blazer Report 22 jan 2020

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...... Recruitment, Why women are not joining. I will tell you frigging why! DND is failing to provide the environment they damn well deserve to fulfill the obligation. Be a cold day in hell before I would advise anybody to join the caf till politicians start treating us with respect instead of lip service.

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