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PCs promise to set up veterans' advocate office

Progressive Conservative leader Paul Davis says if re-elected, his government would set up a Veterans' Advocate office with the power to investigate complaints.

Paul Davis says too many 'suffer in silence'

Paul Davis says a veterans' advocate would have the power to investigate and issue reports. (CBC)

Progressive Conservative Leader Paul Davis says, if re-elected, his government will set up a veterans' advocate office with the power to investigate complaints.

Davis made the announcement Tuesday in Mount Pearl, as he attended a Remembrance Day assembly at Mary Queen of the World school.

In a prepared statement, Davis said many veterans "are facing significant challenges, and some are suffering in silence."

He said the province can do more than put up monuments and memorials.

Paul Davis and the PC candidate in Mount Pearl North, Steve Kent, attend a Remembrance Day ceremony at Mary Queen of the World school. (CBC)

According to Davis, the veterans' advocate would be an independent office with the power to investigate and report, similar to the child and youth advocate, the privacy commissioner and the auditor general, 

"We will also look to our province's veterans' advocate to press the government of Canada to do a better job of meeting our veterans' needs," he said.

Davis said former members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and the RCMP, as well as their families, would be helped by the advocate.