The article below was first published in Ottawa’s Hill Times on January 23, 2012 For Canada’s injured military, veterans and their families, there are few government agencies so singularly reviled as the Veterans Review and Appeal Board. The federal quasi-judicial body which hears reviews and appeals from injured soldiers and veterans applying for disability benefits [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2012/01/28/just-one-more-reason-for-a-commission-of-inquiry-into-veterans-issues/
The article below was first published in Ottawa’s Hill Times on December 5, 2011 It has become a sad truism that Canadians’ faith and trust in our federal government has been consistently declining. This is hardly news. Over the past decade, federal government studies from the likes of Public Works and Government Services in 2001 [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/12/13/it%e2%80%99s-time-ottawa-fix-its-broken-trust-with-canadians/
I’ve been trying to find a topic to write about these past two weeks, but haven’t found something that really inspired me into outrage. I’ve just become too jaded. There have been stories of incompetence and abuse of authority – the rising aviation accident death rate due to Transport Canada’s refusal to act as a [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/11/21/the-age-of-unaccountability/