{"id":15039,"date":"2014-11-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-strengthen-mental-health-support-for-canadian-armed-forces-personnel-veterans-and-their-families-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:13:51","slug":"minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-strengthen-mental-health-support-for-canadian-armed-forces-personnel-veterans-and-their-families-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-strengthen-mental-health-support-for-canadian-armed-forces-personnel-veterans-and-their-families-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Blaney Highlights the Government of Canada&#8217;s Commitment to Strengthen Mental Health Support for Canadian Armed Forces Personnel, Veterans and their Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and M.P. for Levis, Bellechasse and Les Etchemins today highlighted the commitment taken by his colleagues the Honourable Julian Fantino, M.P. for Vaughan and Minister of Veterans Affairs, and the Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls and Minister of National Defence, who announced new and expanded mental health initiatives for Veterans, serving military members, and their families. Once implemented, the strategy will strengthen Canada&#8217;s world class treatment, care and research for Canadian Armed Forces members and Veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/pressreleases\/14\/11\/m5031707\/minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-stre#ixzz3K0QaSwKY\">http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/pressreleases\/14\/11\/m5031707\/minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-stre#ixzz3K0QaSwKY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;\">11\/23\/2014<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/pressreleases\/14\/11\/m5031707\/minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-stre\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Source<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and M.P. for Levis, Bellechasse and Les Etchemins today highlighted the commitment taken by his colleagues the Honourable Julian &#8230; <a title=\"Minister Blaney Highlights the Government of Canada&#8217;s Commitment to Strengthen Mental Health Support for Canadian Armed Forces Personnel, Veterans and their Families\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-strengthen-mental-health-support-for-canadian-armed-forces-personnel-veterans-and-their-families-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Minister Blaney Highlights the Government of Canada&#8217;s Commitment to Strengthen Mental Health Support for Canadian Armed Forces Personnel, Veterans and their Families\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195],"topic":[178],"news-type":[172],"class_list":["post-15039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-veterans","topic-mental-health","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister Blaney Highlights the Government of Canada&#039;s Commitment to Strengthen Mental Health Support for Canadian Armed Forces Personnel, Veterans and their Families<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/minister-blaney-highlights-the-government-of-canadas-commitment-to-strengthen-mental-health-support-for-canadian-armed-forces-personnel-veterans-and-their-families-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister Blaney Highlights the Government of Canada&#039;s Commitment to Strengthen Mental Health Support for Canadian Armed Forces Personnel, Veterans and their Families\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and M.P. for Levis, Bellechasse and Les Etchemins today highlighted the commitment taken by his colleagues the Honourable Julian ... 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