Democracy also a right of veterans: how Canada can begin to repay debt owed to our injured soldiers

The bureaucracy forced the sale of the New Veterans Charter upon us in 2005. Today, veterans are demanding an all-encompassing recall.

OTTAWA—While we wore our uniforms, democracy was furthest from our minds as we cast votes in makeshift polling stations often set up in foreign lands. We all know how the military is not the most democratic of institutions. However, I believe that veterans, especially the disabled and our families have come to treasure Canada's democratic values because we know intimately what it is to have given up so much to protect those values.

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