On Monday (December 1) Canada’s Official Opposition NDP Party and the Liberal opposition party called on Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino to resign. The minister and his ministry have been under attack for weeks for not sufficiently helping Canada’s military veterans, and according to the opposition parties, misleading Canadians about a recent funding announcement.
In addition, last week, Canada’s Auditor General in a review of government spending reported that one of every five Canadian veterans suffering from a mental illness has to wait more than eight months before the government approves help, and such delays “may jeopardize a veteran’s stabilization and/or recovery”,
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.
ListenMore information:
National Post – How Julian Fantino went from star MP to political liability: ‘He has not heard the pleas of our veterans’ – here
Huffington Post – Julian Fantino, Veterans Affairs Minister, Must Resign: NDP, Grits – here
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