Windsor-Essex veterans have won a small victory, in their fight to keep regional veterans affairs offices, open.

Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino says one veterans affairs client service agent will remain in Windsor, once the veterans affairs office closes early in the New Year.

Windsor is one of a number of communities including Thunder Bay, Charlottetown and Kelowna that will be losing its local office, Jan. 31. The one veterans affairs agent remaining will work out of a Service Canada location.

The move was immediately criticized by the Ontario Public Service Alliance of Canada as a “betrayal” of Canada’s more than 17,000 veterans.