The Veterans Affairs office in Windsor will reopen in spring of 2017.
"It's going to help build their lives in a productive fashion and also to be there with care and compassion and respect to ensure that they're getting the best transition from military to civilian life that we can possibly offer," says the Minister of Veterans Affairs Kent Hehr who was in Windsor today to announce the reopening.
The offices were closed by the Conservative government in January 2014.
Veteran Larry Costello says it was a struggle to access services without the local office.
"When they're in the area I get the service I need but some of us don't feel like going that far [to London] to get the services so we lose out on what we're entitled to," says Costello.
Hehr says the office is expected to serve 2800 veterans in the community.
The office will be located on the sixth floor 1 Riverside Dr. W and employ 17 people.
"Front line staffers who are here to serve veterans and their families through difficult and complex services, that was often difficult over the phone or by computer and we owe it to our veterans and their families to do better," says Hehr.
