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APPENDIX A: LIST OF WITNESSES

 

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Office of the Veterans Ombudsman

Guy Parent, Veterans Ombudsman

2016/03/08

4

Department of Veterans Affairs

Bernard Butler, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy and Commemoration

2016/03/10

5

Michel Doiron, Assistant Deputy Minister, Service Delivery Branch

   

Gen (Retired) Walter Natynczyk, Deputy Minister

   

Department of Veterans Affairs

Cyd Courchesne, Director General,

Health Professionals and Chief Medical Officer

2016/04/14

7

Michel Doiron, Assistant Deputy Minister, Service Delivery Branch

   

David F. Ross, National Manager and Clinical Coordinator, Network of Operational Stress Injury Clinics, Quebec Regional Office

   

Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Dawn Campbell, Director

   

Michael Ferguson, Auditor General of Canada

   

Joe Martire, Principal

   

Equitas Disabled Soldiers Funding Society

Brian McKenna, Veterans Council Representative

2016/04/21

8

Jim Scott, President

   

Royal Canadian Legion

Ray McInnis, Director, Service Bureau, Dominion Command

   

Brad White, Dominion Secretary, Dominion Command

   

As individuals

Alannah Gilmore

2016/05/03

9

Cody Kuluski

Jody Mitic

Jesse Veltri

Barry Westholm

   

Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association

LGen (Retired) Louis Cuppens, Special Advisor

2016/05/05

10

Ray Kokkonen, President

   

Royal Canadian Air Force Association

Dean Black, Executive Director

   

The Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada

Deanna Fimrite, Dominion Secretary-Treasurer Dominion Command

   

Veterans UN-NATO Canada

Denis Beaudin, Founder

   

Brigitte Laverdure, Peer Support

   

As individuals

Jenny Migneault

2016/05/10

11

Carla Murray

   

Canadian Caregivers Brigade

Kimberly Davis, Director

2016/05/12

12

Canadian Veterans Advocacy

Michael L. Blais, President and Founder

   

Sylvain Chartrand, Director

   

As individuals

Dana Batho, Administrator, Send Up the Count, Facebook Group

   

Matthew Harris, 31CBG Veteran Well-Being Network

   

Aboriginal Veterans Autochtones

Robert Thibeau, President

2016/05/19

13

Korea Veterans Association of Canada

Bill Black, President, Unit 7

   

Veterans Canada

Donald Leonardo, National President

   

Veterans Review and Appeal Board

Thomas Jarmyn, Acting Chair

2016/05/31

14

Canadian Aboriginal Veterans and Serving Members Association

Richard Blackwolf, National President

2016/06/02

15

Joseph Burke, National Representative

   

NATO Veterans Organization of Canada

Gordon Jenkins, President, Head Office

   

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Veterans' Association

Mark Gaillard, Executive Officer and Secretary

   

National Defence and Canadian Forces Ombudsman

Robyn Hynes, Director General, Operations

2016/06/07

16

Gary Walbourne, Ombudsman

   

Department of National Defence

BGen Nicolas Eldaoud, Chief of Staff,Military Personnel Command

2016/06/09

17

Capt(N) Marie-France Langlois, Director, Casualty Support Management, Joint Personnel Support Unit

   

Bruce Phillips, Peer Support Coordinator,Operational Stress Injury Social Support (OSISS), National Capital Region

   

Vanessa Pok Shin, Family Peer Support Coordinator,Operational Stress Injury Social Support (OSISS), National Capital Region

   

Department of Veterans Affairs

Robert Cormier, Area Director, Field Operations, Service Delivery Branch

   

Elizabeth Douglas, Director General, Service Delivery and Program Management

   

Anne-Marie Pellerin, Director, Case Management and Support Services

   

As individuals

Reginald Argue

2016/06/13

18

Walter Callaghan

   

Brenda Northey

   

As individuals

Jerry Kovacs

2016/06/14

19

George Zimmerman

   

Department of Veterans Affairs

Anthony Saez, Executive Director and Chief Pensions Advocate, Bureau of Pensions Advocates

2016/06/16

20

Vanier Institute of the Family

Russell Mann, Colonel (Retired), Special Advisor

2016/09/22

21

Nora Spinks, Chief Executive Officer

   

Veterans Emergency Transition Services

Debbie Lowther, Co-founder

   

Réseau d'accueil des agents et agentes de la paix (Maison La Vigile)

Nancy Dussault, Director, Nursing

2016/09/29

22

Jacques Denis Simard, Director General

   

Veterans Transition Network

Doug Allen, Program Coordinator, Atlantic

   

Oliver Thorne, Director, National Operations

   

Shaping Purpose

Andrew Garsch, Vice-president, Program Delivery

2016/10/04

23

Trauma Healing Centers

Trevor Bungay, Veteran

   

As individuals

Fred Doucette, Retired Peer Support Coordinator, Veteran

   

Kevin Estabrooks, Volunteer Peer Support Advisor, Veteran

   

National Defence and Canadian Forces Ombudsman

Robyn Hynes, Director General, Operations

2016/10/06

24

Gary Walbourne, Ombudsman

   

Canadian Association of Veterans in United Nations Peacekeeping

Wayne Mac Culloch, National President

2016/10/18

25

Union of Veterans' Affairs Employees

Carl Gannon, National President

   

Valcartier Family Centre

Marie-Claude Michaud, Chief Executive Officer

   

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Daniel Dubeau, Deputy Commissioner, Chief Human Resources Officer

2016/10/20

26

Pierre Lebrun, Director General,National Compensation Services

   

Stephen White, Assistant Chief Human Resources Officer