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Last edited by khori_wan_kenobi on 11/ 11/ 05 12:53 pm; edited 1 time in total

Ottawa radio is reporting that the Vets that arrived in Ottawa by train yesterday were shacked up in a hotel with really bad accomodations. From the stories I've heard so far, the hotel has very little furniture and what it does have is falling apart. Mad

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Posted: 11/ 11/ 05 10:04 am Post subject:

Given that the abandoned military housing at Connaught Ranges at Shirley's Bay (Kanata) is a military base, I am assuming that the government had a role in setting up these substandard accomodations for elderly veterans.

Train vets shunted to desolate military base

Fri, November 11, 2005

By STEPHANIE RUBEC, Free Press Parliamentary Bureau

OTTAWA -- Many of the veterans who travelled by train from Halifax to attend Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa laid their weary heads down in abandoned housing on a desolate military base last night.

The veterans, who are all over 80, were shocked to find out that the cash they shelled out for the trip down memory lane would not cover hotel rooms. Instead they were taken to drafty, abandoned military housing at Connaught Ranges, a training centre soldiers only visit in daylight for target practice.

Cliff Chadderton, head of the National Council of Veterans Associations, said he began receiving confused calls from friends on the train tour after they were bused to the sprawling training centre in Ottawa's west end near Shirley's Bay and told they had to pay as much as $10-a-night for the accommodations.

"It's just terrible," Chadderton said of the spartan accommodations the elderly vets have been put up in for their short visit to the nation's capital. "It is absolutely substandard."

Some vets have opted out of the military housing and headed to a downtown hotel on their own dime.

link: http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2005/11/11/1301855-sun.html
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Posted: 11/ 11/ 05 10:06 am Post subject:

The government owns Chateau Laurier which is right across from the War memorial!!!! Put our vets there! Mad

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Posted: 11/ 11/ 05 10:32 am Post subject:

This was "housing previously shut down by the military for not meeting basic safety standards". Mad

http://ottawasun.com/News/National/2005/11/11/1301785-sun.html

November 11, 2005

Vets housed at bleak base
By STEPHANIE RUBEC, Parliamentary Bureau

MANY OF THE 300 veterans who travelled by train from Halifax to attend Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa laid their weary heads down in abandoned housing on a desolate military base last night.

The veterans, who are all over 80, were shocked to find out that the cash they shelled out for the trip down memory lane would not cover hotel rooms. Instead, they were taken to drafty, abandoned military housing at Connaught Ranges, a training centre soldiers only visit during the day for target practice.

Cliff Chadderton, head of the National Council of Veterans Associations, said he began receiving calls from friends on the train tour after they were bused to the sprawling training centre in Ottawa's west end near Shirley's Bay and told they would have to pay as much as $10 a night for the accommodations.

"It's just terrible," Chadderton said of the spartan accommodations the vets have been put up in for their short visit to the nation's capital. "It is absolutely substandard."

Chadderton said the vets were told to expect similar conditions to what they would have experienced as young boys shortly after their recruitment during World War II.

But, Chadderton said, the vets expected spartan hotel rooms, not being put up in housing previously shut down by the military for not meeting basic safety standards. The sparse accommodations have put a damper on what was a brilliant idea to bring veterans together for Remembrance Day, Chadderton said.

He said he's offered to put up some visiting vets in his home, but his inability to offer them transportation to the ceremony at the war monument forced them to remain at Connaught Ranges.

DOWNTOWN HOTEL

Some vets have opted out of the military housing and headed to a downtown hotel on their own dime.

About 300 veterans travelled on a special 33-car Via Rail train from Halifax, arriving in Ottawa yesterday, to be greeted by Veterans Affairs Minister Albina Guarnieri.

The return ticket cost $225 and the food for the trip was donated by a national grocery chain. A barbershop quartet also provided musical entertainment.

Chadderton said he has organized a free visit to the War Museum after today's ceremony to keep the vets busy.

stephanie.rubec@tor.sunpub.com
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Posted: 11/ 11/ 05 10:34 am Post subject:

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Posted: 11/ 11/ 05 10:52 am Post subject:

I wonder where their commander-in-chief Miss Jean slept last night?

Posted: 11/ 11/ 05 11:11 am Post subject:

Hopefully we will hear of the controversial protest by vets directed at Michelle Jean.
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Posted: 11/ 11/ 05 12:43 pm Post subject:

I just got back from the Centotaph in Halifax. Very nice service, well attended, but the crowd should be 10 times larger. And hearing about this latest slap by the Liberals to our veterans just makes my blood boil Mad

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Posted: 11/ 14/ 05 9:52 am Post subject:

I believe that no government representative met the vets at the train station either. I was told that when the vets changed trains in Montreal, the public were not able to see the vets from the side roads when they passed by as the windows were tinted. So many things about this is an embarrassment.

Government proclaims "The Year of the Veteran", HA, what a joke.
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