Veterans Affairs Canada has a perverse understanding of ‘consultation’

Veterans Affairs Canada's bureaucracy should remember that 100,000 Canadians have not died and almost 300,000 have not incurred lifelong injuries in military service merely for 'show.'

In a most bizarre déjà vu, history repeated itself on March 11 when the House passed Bill C-55. The bill was sold as the fix-for-all that ails veterans' legislation originally passed in 2005, legislation which replaced lifelong payments for pain and suffering for injured soldiers wi...

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