Veterans Affairs Canada is re-opening the district office in Charlottetown along with eight other offices across the country.
Veterans and their families joined Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr in Corner Brook, N.L., today to officially re-open the first of nine Veterans Affairs Offices to be opened across the country.
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Offices in Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Sydney, N.S.; Windsor and Thunder Bay, Ont.; Saskatoon, Sask.; Brandon, Man.; and Prince George and Kelowna, B.C. are scheduled to be reopened in spring 2017. A 10th office will open in Surrey, B.C., and outreach will be expanded to veterans in the territories.
Hehr noted reopening these regional offices was part of the Liberals' campaign promise last fall.
"We stand by this promise," he said. "We are re-opening these nine offices and delivering on our commitments to treat veterans with the care, compassion and respect they deserve.”
In addition to re-opening the offices, the department will continue towards hiring 400 new employees, including new staff to ensure case managers have a caseload maximum of 25 veterans. As of May 2016, more than 250 new frontline employees have been hired.
The remainder of the regional offices will open between now and May 2017.
