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OUTRAGED BY DETAILS OF PRIVACY BREECH / INDIGNÉS PAR DETAILS DE LA VIE PRIVÉE DU SIEGE |
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Written by Exec
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 03:10 |
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CITIZENS’ GROUP OUTRAGED BY DETAILS OF PRIVACY BREECH
St. John’s – Details of the breech of a veteran’s privacy has outraged Our Duty.
“It’s absolutely appalling,” said Jeff Rose-Martland, president of the St. John’s based citizen’s group which advocates for veterans’ benefits. “The amount of detail included in this ministerial docket far exceeds anything we might have anticipated.”
Veterans’ advocate Dennis Manuge revealed last November that staff at Veterans’ Affairs had breached his privacy. Yesterday, he began posting online documents he uncovered through an Access to Information Request; documents he redacted himself, prior to posting. One of them - Ministerial Docket ESU09-000060 – discusses a February 2009 meeting the advocate had had regarding the Halifax District Office Client Advisory Committee.
The brief also contains a summary of Manuge’s case file.
Rose-Martland explains, “Here we have a veteran who was interested in volunteering for a committee to help improve VAC services. He had a meeting with the committee chair and decided not to pursue it. That’s the full story. Why such a non-event required briefing the Minister escapes me.”
What has incensed Our Duty is the rest of the document.
“Listed under Background is a summary of Manuge’s veterans’ benefits: how much money he received monthly, what percentage disability, what medical conditions, even that he did not apply for the job rehab program. Absolutely none of that is relevant to serving on a committee. Nor should it have been provided to anyone not directly involved in managing Mr. Manuge’s benefits.”
Rose-Martland says the 2-page document raises a number of questions: “It’s clear that Minister Greg Thompson was keeping tabs on Mr. Manuge and that departmental staff were aware of that. This document is not a letter to the Minister; it is a briefing document. It would have been tabled and distributed in a staff meeting, which means that individuals who were totally un-involved also received details of Manuge’s life.”
“There’s an air of casualness in the presentation, as if there is nothing unusual about summarizing a case file for the Minister. It makes me wonder if that was standard operating procedure in the Department.”
The Our Duty President feels it’s time for a criminal inquiry into such breeches. “We know this happened to Sean Bruyea. Now we have proof of Dennis Manuge. There are at least six other cases I know of, and page two of the docket suggests that this may have occurred with 2 other individuals who also inquired about the Client Advisory Committee. The fact of these violations is alarming; the details are obscene.”
“This goes way beyond a reprimand from the Privacy Commissioner and some remedial seminars,” say Rose-Martland, “This is a complete betrayal of public trust. The Mounties need to be called in, questions answered, and charges laid.”
A copy of the document can be viewed by the links below.
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GROUPE DE CITOYENS INDIGNÉS PAR DETAILS DE LA VIE PRIVÉE DU SIEGE
St. John’s - Détails de la culasse de la vie privée d'un ancien combattant a indigné Notre Devoir.
«C'est absolument épouvantable", a déclaré Jeff Rose-Martland, président du groupe de citoyens basée St. John’s, qui préconise pour les prestations aux anciens combattants. "La quantité de détails inclus dans ce dossier ministérielle dépasse de loin tout nous pourrions avoir prévu."
Des anciens combattants défenseur Dennis Manuge a révélé que le personnel Novembre dernier au Ministère des Anciens Combattants avait violé son intimité. Hier, il a commencé à publier des documents en ligne qu'il a découvert grâce à une demande d'accès à l'information; documents lui-même expurgée, avant de poster. L'un d'eux - Dossier Ministérielle ESU09-000060 - aborde un Février 2009 Réunion du défenseur avait eu concernant le District d'Halifax Bureau du Comité Consultatif du Client.
Le mémoire contient également un résumé de dossier Manuge.
Rose-Martland, explique: «Ici nous avons un vétéran qui était intéressé à faire du bénévolat pour un comité pour aider à améliorer les services d'ACC. Il a eu une rencontre avec le président du comité et a décidé de ne pas le poursuivre. C'est toute l'histoire. Pourquoi une telle séance d'information non-événement exige que le Ministre ne m'échappe. "
Ce qui a révolté Notre Devoir est le reste du document.
"Vous trouverez sous Arrière-plan est un résumé des prestations aux anciens combattants Manuge: combien d'argent il a reçu mensuellement, ce handicap de pourcentage, quelles sont les conditions médicales, même qu'il ne s'applique pas pour le programme de réhabilitation du travail. Absolument rien de tout cela est pertinent pour siéger à un comité. Il ne devrait pas avoir été fourni à quiconque n'est pas directement impliqué dans la gestion des prestations de M. Manuge. "
Rose-Martland affirme que le document de 2 pages soulève un certain nombre de questions: «Il est clair que le ministre Greg Thompson a garder un œil sur M. Manuge et que le personnel du Ministère ont été conscients de cela. Ce document n'est pas une lettre à la ministre, c'est un document d'information. Il aurait été déposé et distribué lors d'une réunion du personnel, ce qui signifie que les personnes qui étaient totalement non-impliqués a également reçu les détails de la vie Manuge. "
«Il ya un air de désinvolture dans la présentation, comme s'il n'y avait rien d'inhabituel à résumer un dossier pour le ministre. Il me fait me demander si c'était la procédure standard de fonctionnement dans le département. "
Le Président Notre Devoir sent qu'il est temps pour une enquête criminelle sur une culotte tels. «Nous savons ce qui est arrivé à Sean Bruyea. Maintenant nous avons la preuve de Dennis Manuge. Il ya au moins six autres cas que je connais, et la page deux du dossier d'suggère que cela peut avoir eu lieu avec deux autres individus qui ont également enquis du Comité Consultatif de la Clientèle. Le fait de ces violations est alarmante; les détails sont obscènes ».
«Cela va bien au-delà d'une réprimande de la Commissaire à la Protection et dans certains séminaires de rattrapage», disent-Rose Martland, «C'est une trahison totale de confiance du public. La GRC ont besoin d'être appelé, répondu aux questions, et les accusations portées. "
Une copie du document peut être consulté par les liens ci-dessous.
http://ourduty.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161:manuge-minister-privacy-violation&catid=31:general&Itemid=46
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MEDIA RELEASE / COMMUNIQUE: VETERANS TO SHOW PRIDE / ANCIENS COMBATTANTS DE MONTRER LA FIERTÉ |
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Written by exec
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Monday, 28 November 2011 20:03 |
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*****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*****
VETERANS TO SHOW PRIDE
To mark the final day of The Month of Remembrance, Canada’s veterans will be showing themselves.
Veterans Among Us is a new national awareness campaign intended to show citizens how prevalent veterans are in our population. Veterans Among Us calls on those who have served Canada’s national interests to wear their medals at the beginning and end of November.
Our Duty, the group behind the campaign, says this is a great way for veterans to show pride in their achievements. Our Duty President Jeff Rose-Martland says, “On Remembrance Day, veterans stand and remember pain and horror. We feel there should be a time to celebrate as well. Serving the country, whether in the RCMP or Forces, is a noble cause and veterans deserve a chance to show what they achieved.”
Our Duty also hopes the campaign will show people how many veterans they already know. “With over 800,000 veterans in Canada, everyone knows someone who has served, but may not be aware of that,” Rose-Martland explains, “Those who serve don’t tend to brag about it. But if your co-worker shows up wearing medals, you are going to ask. That gets dialogue going and helps citizens to better understand the contributions made by our troops and police.”
Day 1 of Veterans Among Us - 1 November - was declared a success despite mixed reactions. Some veterans found comrades. Others were thanked for their service by friends and colleagues. “Some people were really uncomfortable,” Rose-Martland explained, “Which shows the disconnect in our society. Seeing a person wearing medals, some people didn’t know how to react. One veteran, attending university that day, felt like he had his own force field: crowds parted around him all day.” That veteran also heard many comments in his wake.
“Its not surprising,” says Rose-Martland, “And we are confident that will change the campaign grows. What we want to see is veterans wearing their medals on Wednesday and citizens talking to them about it. This is a great opportunity for everyone.”
Veterans Among Us takes place all day on 30 November. Veterans are encouraged to wear their medals as part of their regular clothes on that day. For more information, visit ourduty.org
*** Media Contact Info ***
Jeff Rose-Martland
President, Our Duty Inc
St. John’s, NL, A1E 2E7
Exec@ourduty.org
Twitter: @rosemartland, @our_duty
Faceboook: facebook.com/our duty
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/169609446452100
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ANCIENS COMBATTANTS DE MONTRER LA FIERTÉ
Pour marquer le dernier jour du Mois du Souvenir, les anciens combattants du Canada sera se montrer.
Anciens Combattants Parmi Nous est une nouvelle campagne de sensibilisation nationale destinée à montrer aux citoyens comment vétérans sont répandues dans notre population. Anciens Combattants Parmi Nous invite ceux qui ont servi les intérêts nationaux du Canada à porter leurs médailles au début et à la fin de Novembre.
Notre Devoir, le groupe derrière la campagne, dit que c'est une excellente façon pour les vétérans de montrer la fierté de leurs réalisations. Notre Devoir président Jeff Rose-Martland dit: “Le jour du Souvenir, les anciens combattants stand et souvenez douleur et l'horreur. Nous pensons qu'il devrait y avoir un temps de célébrer ainsi. Servir le pays, que ce soit dans la GRC ou des Forces canadiennes, est une noble cause et les anciens combattants méritent une chance de montrer ce qu'ils ont accompli. "
Notre Devoir espère aussi que la campagne va montrer aux gens combien d'anciens combattants qu'ils connaissent déjà. “Avec plus de 800 000 anciens combattants au Canada, tout le monde connaît quelqu'un qui a servi, mais ne peut pas être conscient de cela," Rose-Martland, explique: “Ceux qui servent n'ont pas tendance à s'en vanter. Mais si votre collègue montre jusqu'à porter des médailles, vous allez demander. Cela devient un dialogue en cours et aide les citoyens à mieux comprendre les contributions faites par nos troupes et la police. "
Jour 1 des Anciens Combattants Parmi Nous - 1 Novembre - a été déclaré un succès malgré des réactions mitigées. Certains anciens combattants trouvés camarades. D'autres ont été remerciés pour leurs services par des amis et des collègues. “Certaines personnes ont vraiment inconfortable”, a expliqué Rose-Martland, "qui montre la déconnexion de notre société. Voyant un personne portant des médailles, certaines personnes ne savaient pas comment réagir. Un ancien combattant, à l'université ce jour-là, se sentait comme s'il avait son domaine propre force: la foule autour de lui se séparèrent tous les jours "que le vétéran a également entendu de nombreux commentaires dans son sillage.
"Ce n'est pas surprenant”, dit Rose-Martland, “Et nous sommes confiants que va changer la campagne se développe. Ce que nous voulons voir se porter leurs médailles aux anciens combattants, le mercredi et les citoyens de leur parler de lui. C'est une grande opportunité pour tous.”
Anciens Combattants Parmi Nous se déroule tous les jours le 30 Novembre. Les anciens combattants sont invités à porter leurs médailles dans le cadre de leurs vêtements ordinaires à cette date. Pour plus d'informations, visitez ourduty.org
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Contact pour les médias:
Jeff Rose-Martland
Président, Our Duty Inc
St. John's, T.-N.-L., A1E 2E7
Exec@ourduty.org
Twitter: @ rosemartland, @ our_duty
Faceboook: facebook.com / notre devoir
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VAC Internal Procedures – Procédures Interne de ACC |
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Written by EXEC
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Saturday, 10 September 2011 14:06 |
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Courtesy of Canadian Veterans Advocacy - Great Work Guys!
 http://canadianveteransadvocacy.com/
Canadian Veterans Advocacy is pleased to announce the release of over 9,500 pages of internal VAC procedures’. You can base yourself on the file name to know what the procedure deals with. For those involved directly with VAC, you will find the document, WVA Precedent, interesting. Enjoy reading.
Canadian Veterans Advocacy vous annonce les publications de plus de 9,500 pages de procédure interne d’ACC. Fier vous au nom du fichier pour savoir ce qu’il contiens.
http://bit.ly/nbLBMD
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Veterans Among Us / Anciens Combattants Parmi Nous |
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Written by EXEC
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:02 |
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You served your country with distinction. You stood on guard for years. You showed exceptional courage. You mitigated disasters. You protected peace. You gave exemplary service and brought credit to Canada. You are a veteran.
This November, to mark the beginning and end of the Month of Remembrance, the citizens of Canada invite you to participate in Veterans Among Us. On the 1st and 30th, wear your medals with pride as your go about your day. You know what you did; let your community know. Celebrate your achievements.
Honours and awards are presented on behalf of all Canadians to recognize those people who have demonstrated excellence, courage or exceptional dedication to service in ways that bring special credit to this country. Too often, these are worn only in memorial of the fallen. This year, celebrate your service as well!
On November 1st and 31st, wear your medals with pride. Show all of Canada what you achieved.
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Vous avez servi votre pays avec distinction. Vous monté la garde pendant des années. Vous avez montré un courage exceptionnel. Vous atténué en cas de catastrophe. Vous avez protégé la paix. Vous avez donné un service exemplaire et fait honneur au Canada. Vous êtes un ancien combattant.
Cette Novembre, pour marquer le début et la fin de la commémoration, les citoyens du Canada vous invitent à participer à Anciens Combattants Parmi Nous. Le premier et le 30, portez vos médailles avec fierté tout au long de votre journée. Vous savez ce que vous avez fait, laissez votre communauté savent. Célébrez vos réalisations.
Honneurs et récompenses sont présentées au nom de tous les Canadiens à reconnaître les personnes qui ont fait preuve d'excellence, de courage ou de dévouement exceptionnel au service, afin de donner du crédit spécial pour ce pays. Trop souvent, il est porté uniquement dans mémorial de la personne décédée. Cette année, célébrez votre service aussi bien!
1er novembre et le 31, porter vos médailles avec fierté. Show Canada ce que vous atteint.
Anciens Combattants Parmi Nous est présenté par / Veterans Among Us is brought to you by :
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Address for Canada National Peacekeepers' Day 2011 |
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Written by Jeff Rose-Martland
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Sunday, 07 August 2011 22:01 |
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When Lester Pearson first proposed peacekeeping to the UN in 1947, I doubt he realized how much this would impact our national character. Nor would he have seen the development of an entirely different type of soldier and RCMP officer.
64 Years ago, faced with a crisis in Israel, Pearson presented the world with a brand new concept, with the idea that soldiers, could be engineers of peace instead of weapons of war. Through the Israeli conflict and the Korean War, Pearson continued to prove that his idea was reasonable and practical, but it took the Suez Crisis before the world was ready to accept the proposal. To end Suez, Canada led soldiers from Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, India, Indonesia, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia into Egypt with the goal of stopping the belligerents from fighting, with force if need be. The United Nations Emergency Force - UNEF - became the first real peacekeeping mission. And it would not have occurred, had not a balding, bespectacled, round-faced, son-of-a-Methodist minister had the vision that soldiers could bring peace.
In the decades since, despite our relatively small and frequently under-equipped military, Canada has led the world in peacekeeping. Canada has been a significant contributor to missions in:
Egypt, Congo, Indonesia, Cyprus, The Middle East, Israel-Syria, Lebanon, Sinai, Namibia, West Sahara, Cambodia, Somalia, Croatia, Haiti, Rwanda, Macedonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Central Africa, East Timor, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia-Entrea, Sudan, Darfur.
And it is a well known fact that, regardless of where the troops come from, a Canadian is wanted to lead any peacekeeping mission. Such is the legacy of Pearson.
There is more to peacekeeping than saying “Please stop fighting” - It takes a special individual to fill this role. Aggression is at the core of the human animal. To hold one’s own aggression in check, in the teeth of conflict and chaos, requires depth of understanding, determination of will, and total dedication to the mission.
Such qualities set peacekeepers apart from the rest of us, but if we are not diligent when planning their missions, those virtues will destroy those who serve.
In 1993, Canada sent General Romeo Dallaire to lead the United Nations Assistance Mission For Rwanda. At its conception, UNAMIR was to oversee the implementation of the Arusha Peace Agreement. The UN’s role was to witness the parties peacefully settle their differences through power sharing.
But in spring of 1994, in the middle of chaos and insanity, General Dallaire was given unbelievable orders - maintain the original mission and rules of engagement. Stay uninvolved. Only fire when fired upon. Despite Dallaire’s arguments and reports of mass murder, he was ordered to stay out of the conflict - he was there to bear witness. Dallaire did as he was ordered. General Romeo Dallaire bore witness to 800 thousand deaths in 100 days. He witnessed a genocide, rather than stop it, because that is what we ordered.
Those special qualities of the peacekeeper - depth, determination, dedication - turned against Romeo Dallaire because we required him to place duty above principle. We asked him to do the impossible. And one thing we SHOULD know is that when you ask the impossible of a Canadian Peacekeeper, they deliver. Dallaire delivered, and suffered. We destroyed a peacekeeper with his own virtues, because we ourselves forgot who peacekeepers serve.
From Pearson’s idea to Dallaire’s ideals, we see the transformation of the peacekeeper from fighting man to defender of humanity. What Dallaire understood - what you fellow peacekeepers understand - is that peacekeeping is not like national service. Soldiers and police serve their country, caring for and defending their citizens. Peacekeeping is vastly different. You are not police, for often there are no laws to enforce. You are not warriors, for there is no war to win. The people involved are not your people.
Peacekeepers serve humanity. Humanity without division by nation or ethnicity, skin colour or language, religion or politics. Peacekeepers serve a principle. A principle that transcends national interests. A principle that goes beyond borders. The principle that peace is not a fantasy, but attainable, for all people.
You who have been peacekeepers, and those who were before, and those who will be later, know that to serve as a peacekeeper is to put yourself in harms way for that principle. You serve to protect the innocent and to calm belligerents. Peacekeepers are there to bring reason to the unreasonable, to bear witness to the unbearable, and to be human amongst the inhumane. You are willing to sacrifice yourself in the name of humanity.
Therefore, on behalf of humanity, I want to thank those who are here and those who could not be, for your service, your dedication, and your sacrifice. You have made the world better and the world thanks you for that. - Jeff Rose-Martland, 7 August 2011
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