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the new minister of veterans affairs, Erin O'Toole, has "responded to Franklin's blog post with a post of his own, in which he writes that he agrees that it is not right that veterans are running into administrative hurdles."

"O'Toole says when these battles worsen the troubles for injured vets, "there is something seriously wrong because everything VAC is structured to do is to help ease the burden of transition for a veteran after their service injury."

"O'Toole added that he is committed to reducing the administrative burden of veterans and to reducing administrative processing times."

Franklin says he wants to see more from the minister. He wants a resolution to the ongoing lawsuits between veterans and the federal government. And he wants to see the new veterans charter scrapped, which ended the monthly pension for disabled veterans in favour of a lump-sum payment.