E-7846 Education and Training Benefit Reform Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7846 — Education and Training Benefit Reform — with 6 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Scott Reid. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7846
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: February 4, 2027
- Sponsor: Scott Reid (Lanark—Frontenac)
- Category: Veterans' affairs
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Petition Text
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
Whereas:
• The Education and Training Benefit is intended to help Veterans transition successfully to post-service life, achieve education and employment goals, and compete in the civilian workforce;
• Veterans Affairs Canada's 2022 evaluation identified opportunities to improve ETB short-course funding and access to appropriate education and training; and
• The ETB's current structure can limit Veterans' practical ability to use the benefit for education and training suited to their post-service goals.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to reform the Education and Training Benefit to:
1. Establish one flexible entitlement allowing approved formal, technical, vocational, professional, certified and industry-recognized education and training, including multiple programs or courses, to draw from a Veteran's available ETB entitlement;
2. Permit Veterans to transfer unused ETB entitlement to an eligible spouse, common-law partner or child for approved education and training;
3. Make ETB education and training payments non-taxable and, where federally possible, exclude them from unrelated income-tested federal calculations;
4. Ensure a substantially complete application submitted before training begins preserves eligibility while VAC adjudicates it, with reasonable exceptions for circumstances outside the Veteran's control;
5. Protect usable ETB eligibility time where participation in VAC rehabilitation prevents reasonable use of the benefit; and
6. Review the ETB's existing service thresholds, particularly their application to Reserve Force service, and examine a graduated entitlement model that more proportionately recognizes qualifying service below and between the existing thresholds.
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