Ottawa spending fraction of the money budgeted for veterans’ funerals, report shows

We just witnessed a Conservative party convention aimed at cementing support for the governing party among its political base heading into the 2015 federal election.

But judging from Ottawa's inept approach on its veterans file, it's written off Canada's ex-military personnel and their families at the ballot box.

 

The latest blot comes via a report by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, released Monday, which looked at the Department of Veterans Affairs' Last Post Fund that finances the funerals of impoverished vets.

The Canadian Press reports the review shows only $18.4 million of the fund's $65-million current budget will be handed out.

This news comes in the wake of last year's embarrassing revelation the fund rejected 67 per cent of requests it received in the previous five years, CP noted.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/ottawa-spending-fraction-money-budgeted-veterans-funerals-report-213110916.html

These bastards in Ottawa will stoop to the lowest level possible to balance the budget by 2015.