Former peacekeeper travelling to Ottawa to support veterans
KAMLOOPS — A former UN peacekeeper is preparing to travel to Ottawa next week with other local veterans in an effort to push the government to better support veterans across the country.
Scott Casey, who served as a peacekeeper in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, says there will be townhall meetings with veterans from all of Canada as well as politicians.
Among the topics will be the alarming suicide rates that he says are 15 to 3, veterans to civilians. There’s also a lawsuit to reinstate the lifetime pension for veterans while scrapping the controversial lumpsum payment.