Pension for life: the ‘elephant in the room’ remains

The government has failed to fulfill veterans’ expectations with respect to the prime minister’s 2015 election commitment to 're-establish lifelong pensions' under the charter so as to ensure that a comparable level of financial security is provided to all disabled veterans and their families over their life course.

Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O'Regan. Brian Forbes says veterans want the minister 'to seriously revisit this series of proposals rather than debating the financial results of various skewed compensation models, ad infinitum.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

April 16, 2018

OTTAWA—Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan, in his March 21 column in The Hill Times entitled “On veterans, let’s compare apples to apples,” continues his attempt to convince the veteran community that his announcement of Dec. 20, 2017, satisfactorily addresses the “elephan...

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