The federal Veterans Affairs Department has no figures on the number of veterans it has hired since Parliament passed a bill in 2015 intended to increase veteran employment numbers.
“We absolutely believe in hiring veterans, not just at Veterans Affairs Canada, but across all federal departments,” said Steven Harris, assistant deputy minister of service delivery at Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC).
Harris was testifying before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs on Jan. 30. The committee is studying a national strategy for veterans’ employment after service.
“We don’t have a specific target for hiring veterans, but we always make recruitment efforts to ensure they can join us,” he told MPs, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter….