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OTTAWA — The federal government is being asked to investigate an alleged decline in service at a hospital for veterans in Winnipeg.

The Union of Veterans Affairs Employees said it has received several complaints about the quality of care at Deer Lodge Centre in Winnipeg, which the union alleges is the result of cuts to funding and staff at the facility.

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“We need to live up to the sacred obligations that we have to our veterans,” UVAE national president Virginia Vaillancourt told The Canadian Press.

“Regardless if you’re a municipal, provincial or federal government, we all have that obligation to our veterans. And, unfortunately, Deer Lodge Centre is not living up to that obligation to our veterans.”

Deer Lodge’s chief operating officer, Kevin Scott, said some “efficiencies” were implemented last fall to reflect the declining number of veterans in the hospital, which the federal government transferred to the province in 1983.