{"id":2667,"date":"2021-01-27T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:06:31","slug":"elephant-in-the-room-remains-at-veterans-affairs-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/ncva-update\/ncva-update-elephant-in-the-room-remains-at-veterans-affairs-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant in the room remains at Veterans Affairs Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"small-12\">\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>January 27, 2021 \u2013<\/strong> The government has failed to meet expectations on its mandated commitment to &#39;re-establish lifelong pensions&#39; so that a comparable level of financial security is provided to all disabled veterans and their families. <\/p>\r\n<p>In these challenging times, and with a pending election on the horizon, Canadian veterans and their families will be closely monitoring all federal leaders to determine which party is prepared to make a substantial commitment to rectifying the shortfalls and inequities which continue to be found in veterans&#39; legislation. Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/2021\/01\/25\/veterans-affairs-canada-elephant-in-the-room-remains?i=8cea7623e469465e83d8acfa0eb08a65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill Times<\/a>. <\/p> \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"small-12\">January 27, 2021 \u2013 The government has failed to meet expectations on its mandated commitment to &#39;re-establish lifelong pensions&#39; so that a comparable level of financial security is provided to all disabled veterans and their families. In these challenging times, and with a pending election on the horizon, Canadian veterans and their families will be(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/ncva-update\/ncva-update-elephant-in-the-room-remains-at-veterans-affairs-canada\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncva-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}