I have a buddy Ray, we do long haul trucking together, he was stabbed, shot from the lower level in a house that had to be cleared ,and had have to eye surgery in both eyes. He was in the Falklands war, we live in a truck for weeks at a time, seen his scares ,seen his meds, For those of you who have not lived with a war vet ,a free fishing lic, or a big game tag is very little for what they went thorough. It is a sigh of respect, and I am very much for it. Thanks
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Saskatchewan Hunting and Angling Licences for Canadian Armed Forces Veterans
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People who serve in the military don't even make the top 10 in the most injuries, fatalities or PTSD. Yet you always seem to hear them playing the victim card and wanting something for free. I was always under the impression that a soldier fought for equality for all, guess times have changed.
I'm sorry - what?
Where do "you always seem to hear them playing the victim card and wanting something for free"?
Please, share the links to all these news stories I've obviously missed.
I remember reading lots over the past years about veterans sharing horror stories about treatment by VAC - like the soldier that got $22,000 after having his head literally split open and losing 5% of his brain. He kept the rest in with his hands. Or the Major that lost both legs, a nut and ruptured an eardrum after having the bad luck to step on an IED, and is now recieving a fraction of what was eligible for under the old Pension Act, and has lost all of his future earning potential. Or the Corporal who had a ball bearing take out his spleen and a kidney, was flown out of theater with his chest and abdomen opened up, spent two years in rehab and got $40,000 for his trouble.
Is that what you're on about? Or is there some other news you'd like to share?
The most dangerous civilian occupation in Canada is the fishing and trapping industry, which has a death rate of 52 per 100,000.
The next most deadly is the mining sector, with 47 deaths per 100,000
The death rate for Afghanistan was 399 per hundred thousand.
Fully 20% of my Battle Group that went outside the wire came home dead or injured. As in, injured badly enough to require evacuation out of theatre. One in five. The national average for Afghan vets is that just over 10% have some form of disability.
I'm not saying all that entitles me to a free hunting license but I am saying it makes you an idiot if you get all panty twisted about a provincial government deciding to offer them. I'd still pay, personally, but it is, most definitely, the thought that counts.
Oh and no, the job of the military isn't to fight for equality for all. Not even close.
Veterans are by definition getting on in age
There's like 650,000 Canadian veterans and their average age is 58.
Free recreational licences is hardly what Veterans need. Proper lifetime disability support for every facet of their injuries on the job is required.
No other Federal employee comes close to the risk that Canada's front line service people face.
Military people have their ass put on the line by politicians, not always with sufficient justification. The very least we owe Vets is compensation for their losses.
No other Federal employee comes close to the risk that Canada's front line service people face.
Military people have their ass put on the line by politicians, not always with sufficient justification. The very least we owe Vets is compensation for their losses.
People who serve in the military don't even make the top 10 in the most injuries, fatalities or PTSD. Yet you always seem to hear them playing the victim card and wanting something for free. I was always under the impression that a soldier fought for equality for all, guess times have changed.
You must be thinking of the French, 'cause I never heard anyone ever, in 28+ years in the CF, say we were fighting for "Equality for all".
Nice gesture on the part of the Sk Gov't. But in the grand scheme, I doubt very high a percentage of CF members or Vets will bother to go out of their way to claim the freebie.
In my time in the Forces, the 'best' thought-of things granted CF members with regards to Hunting that I saw used (and DID take advantage of myself) were the allowance to be considered a "Resident" after only 30 days in Province, when posted in to BC, and I knew several guys that were posted to places where the Resident requirements meant that they could not hunt at Resident prices, until as much as 2 years after arrival, but their Voting District was in Alberta, so they were allowed to hunt in Alberta as a Resident Hunter, rather than paying non-Resident rates.
And the day I retired from the CF, and moved to BC, I had to start the clock on my year wait to become a "Resident", as I was no longer 'in'.
Both these programs were on offer to CF and RCMP personnel, in recognition of that they were sent from Province to Province, not of their own choosing.
Oh yeah. Compo. UI. I paid a LOT of money in to both those systems, off my pay cheque over those years. yet as far as UI was concerned, I was invisible, as there were only two ways out of the CF (ie:to end up jobless) one was to be fired with cause, and the other was to reach end of contract, and neither qualified me to draw out any of the funds I had so generously provided to the program. Was plain just not eligible to get Comp. Just to pay for it.
In the grand scheme, this is a nothing-burger. Nice gesture, but if it was really thought to cost any money to implement, it never woulda happened.
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