The sooner veterans start organizing, peacefully protesting, and self-advocating through aggressive political lobbying and more court actions, the sooner the dilution and dissemination of veteran care will stop.

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What might be your course of action if you wished to dilute and ultimately eliminate the government’s duty of care for disabled veterans without making it seem so obvious?

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First, appoint a complete neophyte as minister of Veterans Affairs – one who has no Parliamentary or cabinet experience. A minister who would be expected to kowtow to the policy will of the Prime Minister’s Office and who can be expected to happily repeat, with sincerity, any canned talking points they receive from the man in charge.

A perfect policy fit for our new, untested, green-as-spring grass Minister of Veterans Affairs Jill McKnight.

Shrewd!

Second, you would pass a budget that would make massive cuts, say for example the 4.2 billion financial battleaxe that Prime Minister Carney is swinging at the financial heart of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Next, have your department’s public relations people associate the entire length and breadth of the multi-billion-dollar cuts with a minor decrease in the medicinal marijuana allowance.

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