May 11, 2005-Senate Standing Committee on National Finance-Veterans...
For complete testimony, questions and answers, please click here. Captain (retired) Sean Bruyea, as an individual: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Louise Richard and I are both Gulf War veterans. I would like to...
View ArticleJune 1, 2005-Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs of the Standing Committee on...
For complete testimony, questions and answers, please click here. Mr. Sean Bruyea (As an Individual): Honourable members, my name is Sean Bruyea. I’m a retired captain and intelligence officer who...
View ArticleJune 13, 2006-House Committee on Veterans Affairs-Veterans Ombudsman
For complete testimony, questions and answers, please click here. Report Accompanying Testimony-A Powerful Independent and Impartial Ombudsman for Veterans Affairs Canada PDF click here HTML click here...
View ArticleMay 7, 2008-Senate Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs-Unfair Deductions from...
For c0mplete testimony, questions and answers, please click here Captain (retired) Sean Bruyea, as an individual: I thank the committee for taking the time to study the issue of the unfair deductions...
View ArticleApril 15, 2010-House Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs-New Veterans Charter
For complete testimony, questions and answers, please click here Mr. Sean Bruyea (Retired Captain (Air Force), Advocate and Journalist, As an Individual): Ladies and gentlemen of the committee, thank...
View ArticleMay 11, 2010-House Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4520027&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3 For complete testimony, questions and answers, please click here. Mr. Sean Bruyea...
View ArticleBlog-February 13, 2012-How to Fix Veterans Affairs Canada and the Veterans...
Just when Ottawa bureaucrats and politicians thought they would have a quiet week following unsuccessful attempts to placate stakeholders in an Ottawa conference room this week (click here for...
View ArticleTestimony to House Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs-April 8,...
Opening Remarks: Sean Bruyea ACVA April 9 2014 Thank you most sincerely for your invitation to speak today. Nine years ago Parliament passed the legislation we now know as the new veterans charter or...
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“Parliament Has No Obligation to Fight for Veterans, Even though Veterans...
Canadians will hopefully remember this before they walk into a Canadian Forces recruiting centre. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright Veterans want respect: In the coming days, Parliament will...
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Veterans trapped under government’s sweeping budget omnibus steamroller: Sean...
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright Finance Minister Joe Oliver, pictured with his top officials Brian Ernewein and Jeremy Rudin May 6 at the House Finance Committee. The omnibus budget bill is a...
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Parliament Throws Veterans under the Bus, Yet Again
The government had better start fighting for veterans soon or Canadians will stop fighting for government. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright Veterans pictured last week protesting on the Hill....
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‘I could not betray my principles and watch others suffer while doing...
Former Air Force intelligence officer Sean Bruyea’s fight with Veterans Affairs Canada for veterans’ benefits and for his own reputation and privacy affected his health, his personal relationships, and...
View ArticleMinister Fantino: less back patting and more action, please
We need to hear much less about those veterans who don’t need our help and focus upon fixing the system comprehensively for those disabled veterans and their families who desperately need our help. A...
View ArticleNew veterans charter: fourteen recommended changes, not substantive results
by Sean Bruyea ESPRIT DE CORPS July 2014 VETERANS HAVE EVERY reason to be disillusioned with Ottawa once again. But this time, the disappointment could become the nail in Veterans Affairs Canada’s...
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Less pretty words, more substantial action needed for military families
MFRCs, at $28-million annually, account for less than 10 per cent of the CAF Morale and Welfare Services budget. Families are valued far less than one maritime helicopter that cost well over...
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