Vets frustrated by high turnover, groups tell Senate as MacAulay sworn in as Trudeau’s fifth veterans affairs minister

The department is being treated as a ‘revolving door,’ Royal Canadian Legion dominion president Thomas Irvine told Senators on Feb. 27.

On March 1, Lawrence MacAulay was sworn in as the 10th minister responsible for Veterans Affairs in the past decade. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JOLSON LIM

March 1, 2019

Longtime MP Lawrence MacAulay was sworn in as minister of veterans affairs this morning, marking the fifth minister of the file under the Trudeau government and 10th one since 2009—something veterans organizations told...

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