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On Christmas Day, and many days before and after, hundreds of veterans will help keep the capital safe thanks to Commissionaires, Canada’s largest private sector employer of veterans with 22,000 employees from coast to coast.

Commissionaires Ottawa, one of 15 independent, self-funding Canadian divisions, has three offices locally and more than 3,700 employees serving our region.

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Its social mandate includes a focus to give back to military and RCMP veterans and their families. One of the ways it does this is to redirect 95 per cent of its revenue back to employees in the form of wages, benefits and training.

Commissionaires Ottawa has also donated $1 million to the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Care Foundation, and raised tens of thousands of dollars for the Military Family Resource Centres in the National Capital Region and Petawawa. Other causes include supporting a jointly managed Return to Work national program for military personnel who are injured or ill.