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Say No to Budget Cuts at VAC

Dear AFP/AAC Member:

We are contacting you today regarding the proposed reductions at Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC). As you may know, VAC is planning to phase out 500 jobs from the department over five years and are planning to slash more than $200 million from the budget, along with another five to 10 per cent funding cut under the Harper government's latest cost-cutting measures.

AFP/AAC is one of the 58 member organizations that make up the National Council of Veteran Associations. Together, we are encouraging all our members to write or contact their MPs to demand that VAC be exempt from any reductions.

As a valued AFP/AAC member, we are asking you to add your voice to those of other concerned Veterans and their spouses.

Click here for an OP ED article for your information, and possible talking points, when you contact your MP.

Need your MPs phone number or mailing address? Click here for a complete list: www.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx

Join together to ensure Canadian Veterans are treated with respect and as a fiscal priority, not as a budget cut.

Sincerely,

Tony Huntley, National Chairman
AFP/AAC
www.afpaac.ca