It is hard to cut waste and excess when people think there are no problems By SEAN BRUYEA and DAVID HUTTON (Freelance), The Montreal Gazette, July 6, 2010 The recent announcement of cash rewards for public servants who suggest improvements in the federal government is naive at best and disingenuous at worst, given the prevailing management…
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Government culture punishes whistleblowers, rather than rewarding them By Sean Bruyea And Allan Cutler Edmonton Journal July 4, 2010 The federal government’s hope to save money by rewarding public servants with cash incentives for cost-cutting ideas hinges on one integral premise: that they will be willing to come forward and speak out against the status…
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 (Retired Captain (Air Force), Advocate and Journalist, As an Individual): Thank you, Chair. Good morning, Chair, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me back to testify. More importantly, thank you for continuing your extensive study on the new Veterans Charter and…
By Dave Pugliese-THE OTTAWA CITIZEN-David Pugliese’s Defence Watch-April 18 2010 Filed under: Veterans Affairs, Sean Bruyea Editor’s note: Veteran’s advocate Sean Bruyea has written a report titled “Honouring Sacrifice with More than Words: A New Direction for Veterans and Veterans Affairs Canada Through Listening Directly to Veterans, Their Families and Frontline Employees.” It has been…
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 you very much for inviting me and my wife here today to testify on the new Veterans Charter. In many ways, Canada’s veterans were betrayed by the…
The bureaucracy forced the sale of the New Veterans Charter upon us in 2005. Today, veterans are demanding an all-encompassing recall. By SEAN BRUYEA The Hill Times Published February 8, 2010 OTTAWA—While we wore our uniforms, democracy was furthest from our minds as we cast votes in makeshift polling stations often set up in foreign…
by Juliet O’Neill-THE OTTAWA CITIZEN- Jan 29, 2010. pg. A.6 Canadians should be wary of a grim trend in the United States where all military suicides outnumber combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, a top mental health expert said Thursday. Zul Merali told a forum on Parliament Hill that military suicides in Canada should be…
La Presse Canadienne-January 28, 2010 OTTAWA _ Le système de prestations aux anciens combattants du Canada récemment révisé a besoin d’une refonte, ont soutenu jeudi les députés de l’opposition libérale à Ottawa. D’anciens soldats et policiers se sont exprimés lors d’un forum parrainé par l’opposition sur la colline du Parlement, exposant leurs griefs au sujet…
Federal treatment of disabled veterans disgraceful
Government actions seem geared to deny what is justly owed to more than 4,000 injured soldiers
Sean Bruyea. Edmonton Journal. Edmonton, Alta.: Jan 27, 2010. pg. A.19
The National Defence Ombudsman has called the deductions “profoundly unfair” and said “the inequity might very well be serious enough to attract the protection of human rights legislation” including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, “which identify physical and mental disabilities as prohibited grounds of discrimination.” Unfortunately, decision-makers in Parliament and those uber-mandarins at Treasury Board and elsewhere in the bureaucracy who pull the strings of ministers, have often placed pay and benefits of disabled soldiers on the same chopping block as military equipment.
THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan 28, 2010 16:18:00 PM OTTAWA – The country’s recently revised system of veterans benefits needs an overhaul, Canada’s walking wounded have told Liberal MPs. Former soldiers and police officers, speaking Thursday at a forum sponsored by the Opposition on Parliament Hill, outlined their grievances over the 2006 Veterans Charter. Sean Bruyea,…
CTV.ca News Staff Date: Thu. Jan. 21 2010 8:41 PM ET A group of disabled Canadian war veterans will head to the Supreme Court of Canada today to battle the very country they once served, in an effort to recoup payments they say were unfairly clawed back. The soldiers are trying to recoup millions of…
By Janice Tibbetts-REGINA LEADER POST-January 21, 2010. pg. A.8 Dennis Manuge, a former soldier who served in Bosnia before he was medically released from the military, gets his day in the Supreme Court of Canada today to fight a federal policy of clawing back disability payments to thousands of injured veterans. “We are fighting our…
Sean Bruyea. The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ont.: Jan 21, 2010. pg. A.13
The National Defence Ombudsman has called the deductions “profoundly unfair” and noted that “the inequity might very well be serious enough to attract the protection of human rights legislation” including “the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which identify physical and mental disabilities as prohibited grounds of discrimination.”
Canadian soldiers expected to return to a supportive Canada, believing that they and their families will be cared for and wars will not follow them home. By SEAN BRUYEA-The Hill Times-Published January 18, 2010 OTTAWA—For many injured Canadian soldiers, the horrific war zones of the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, and Afghanistan are bearable for…
By CYNTHIA MÜNSTER-The Hill Times- Published January 18, 2010 More Canadian soldiers than ever are publicly talking about the effects of PTSD and it’s unclear how many more will return home from Afghanistan with the stress disorder, but Canadian Forces Surgeon General, Commodore Hans Jung, who was appointed to his post in July, says despite…
By CYNTHIA MÜNSTER-The Hill Times- Published January 18, 2010 More Canadian soldiers than ever are publicly talking about the effects of PTSD and it’s unclear how many more will return home from Afghanistan with the stress disorder, but Canadian Forces Surgeon General, Commodore Hans Jung, who was appointed to his post in July, says despite…