Veterans Affairs minister chastised by veterans

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Just caught this on the news the other night and was surprised not to see any discussion of it on here, since I know we have a few veterans.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/juli...vets-1.2515303

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/how-...ails-1.2515817

A meeting between Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino and a group of veterans got off to a rocky start Tuesday evening when Fantino was 70 minutes late.

The veterans were in Ottawa with officials from the Public Service Alliance of Canada to lobby with union officials against the closure of several veterans service offices, and had arranged to meet with Fantino.

http://www.journalpioneer.com/News/L...irs-workload/1

Michelle Bradley and a colleague have split more than 2,200 veterans' files from P.E.I. between them.

They are the people tasked with helping Island veterans now that the district office in Charlottetown has closed -- although that closure doesn't become official until Friday.

"You walk away from the office every day feeling defeated and ashamed because you can't help these (veterans, which) is now my job to do,'' Bradley said in a telephone interview from Ottawa on Wednesday morning.

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http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=134398


Thanks for posting this, it is an important topic.

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Thanks!