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ParliamANT Hill: New VeterAnts Affairs minister cuts off veterAnts’ advocates from advisory role
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Continue readingParliamANT Hill: New VeterAnts Affairs minister cuts off veterAnts’ advocates from advisory role
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Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Canada’s Veterans Still Need Protection from Conservatives ( #cdnpoli )
Canada’s veterans rejoiced when Julian Fantino was finally booted from Veterans Affairs on January 5. Mr. Fantino was replaced by Durham Conservative MP, Erin O’Toole. Ostensibly, a sound pick – a former RCAF officer. Someone with such a background, you’d think would bring a sympathetic ear to what veterans need.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Canada’s Veterans Still Need Protection from Conservatives ( #cdnpoli )
You would argue that it was up to O’Toole to simply toe the party line and publicly support the previous minister.
You would hope his first act would have been to set a new course and a new direction for the troubled ministry.
Well, you’d be disappointed.
The new minister has decided not to listen to certain veterans advocacy groups – especially, it seems, if they do not follow the party line that everything is fine with Veterans Affairs.
Mike Blais, who helped launch Canadian Veterans Advocacy in 2011 to advocate for veterans and serving Canadian Forces members who did combat tours in Afghanistan and their families, told The Hill Times that Mr. O’Toole (Durham, Ont.) gave the bad news [that it is no longer a stakeholder adviser to the Veterans Affairs department] in a voicemail he left on Mr. Blais’ phone service Jan. 7. [Hill Times]
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
- Canada’s Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives
- Canada’s Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part 2
- Canada’s Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part 3
- Canada’s Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part 4
- Canada’s Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part One Thousand
The Progressive Right: Canada’s Veterans Still Need Protection from Conservatives ( #cdnpoli )
Canada’s veterans rejoiced when Julian Fantino was finally booted from Veterans Affairs on January 5. Mr. Fantino was replaced by Durham Conservative MP, Erin O’Toole. Ostensibly, a sound pick – a former RCAF officer. Someone with such a background, you’d think would bring a sympathetic ear to what veterans need.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Stephen Burgen reports on Thomas Piketty’s view that it’s long past time for voters to have anti-austerity options where none existed in the past. And along similar lines, Murray Dobbin sets out the stark choice facing Canadians: Canadians will have to continue to
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: JuliAnt F’Antino out as veterAnts affairs minister
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Continue readingParliamANT Hill: JuliAnt F’Antino out as veterAnts affairs minister
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Continue readingParliamANT Hill: JuliAnt F’Antino out as veterAnts affairs minister
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Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part One Thousand ( #cdnpoli )
Conservatives have continuously let down veterans since coming to power. We’ve since learned that the Conservative Party let $1.1 billion (with a ‘B’) lapse in veteran funding. Essentially, Veterans Affairs had $1.1 billion budgeted to spend on veterans’ programs and the ministry did not spend it. Simply put – the
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part One Thousand ( #cdnpoli )
Conservatives have continuously let down veterans since coming to power.We’ve since learned that the Conservative Party let $1.1 billion (with a ‘B’) lapse in veteran funding. Essentially, Veterans Affairs had $1.1 billion budgeted to spend on veterans…
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part One Thousand ( #cdnpoli )
Conservatives have continuously let down veterans since coming to power. We’ve since learned that the Conservative Party let $1.1 billion (with a ‘B’) lapse in veteran funding. Essentially, Veterans Affairs had $1.1 billion budgeted to spend on veterans’ programs and the ministry did not spend it. Simply put – the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Internal CPC polling on Veterans Affairs issues must be terrible.
If the Conservative government – led by Harper in Question Period no less – has now decided they’re going to try to blame the Liberals for the current mess in Veteran Affairs (led by their mess of a minister Fantino), polling and reaction to their current shabby treatment of Veterans
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Overseas war graves neglected, Veterants Affairs review finds
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Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Overseas war graves neglected, Veterants Affairs review finds
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Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Overseas war graves neglected, Veterants Affairs review finds
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Continue readingEh Types: Playing Soldiers
At the Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa this year there was an impostor. Frank Gervais attended ceremonies in Ottawa in a military uniform, but was later found to be playing a despicable game of dress up. He is facing well deserved charges, but is not the impostor I was referring
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: F’Antino’s cabinet resignation demanded by opposition
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Continue readingParliamANT Hill: F’Antino’s cabinet resignation demanded by opposition
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