Which federal party will stand up for veterans in this election campaign?

The next government in power after Oct. 21 must seize the moment and satisfy the financial needs of Canadian veterans and their dependants, and recognize that the longstanding social covenant between the Canadian people and the veterans’ community demands nothing less.

The last Canadians involved in the NATO training mission in Afghanistan, pictured on March 12, 2014, boarding an American Chinook helicopter as they leave the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph courtesy Cpl. Patrick Blanchard, Canadian Forces Combat Camera

Opinion

BY BRIAN N. FORBES

October 14, 2019

As the federal election day approaches, veterans will be vitally interested in the positions to be adopted by the government and the opposition parties to remedy the longstanding injustice and inequity impacting Canada’s disabled veterans and their families. It remains our position that there is ...

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