Veterans Affairs committee  The top priority with this project is to respond to what was asked in the formalization of the monument to commemorate the Canadian mission in Afghanistan.

Veterans Affairs committee  If I may say so....

Veterans Affairs committee  The idea is that we got rules and got the documents that were describing them. We've followed them. As we're saying, the veterans' opinion is very, very important. It was provided through the documents, because they were consulted prior to the redaction of these documents. They w

Veterans Affairs committee  No, no. You heard me wrong—

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, for sure. In every competition—

Veterans Affairs committee  No. What I said was that if the survey was to change the jury's decision or was to become the priority, we would not have participated, because these are not the rules of the game. Let me answer your first question. The monument is called Le Monument commémoratif national de la

Veterans Affairs committee  No, I have no idea. In one way, that's not the case we're making. There's a procedural flaw in the process, and that's what we want to address. Rules had been established and they weren't obeyed. That's really what we want to condemn and decry.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're absolutely unaware of that.

Veterans Affairs committee  It represents a lot of energy, particularly in this case because it took one year to develop the proposal. It was done in two stages. First, we had to submit our application. The government selected five candidates and asked all five to prepare a whole series of quite exhaustive

Veterans Affairs committee  If the government maintains the position that it isn't required to abide by its own ground rules, I would say no. It takes too much of a team's energy to do so. In addition, if we had clearly been told that the outcome of the competition would be based on a survey, we wouldn't ha

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry; I'm not sure I understood the question.

Veterans Affairs committee  Do you mean what type of work we have to do when we participate in that type of competition?

Veterans Affairs committee  Oh, it's what makes us want to. Well, in this particular instance, what was quite interesting in terms of the competition was, first of all, the topic itself. It's a very serious topic, the Canadian mission in Afghanistan, and to us that was a very interesting topic. Second of

Veterans Affairs committee  To refer to the competition, first of all, the site was a selected one. When we got the documents, when we started the competition, the site had been selected. We just want to connect with something. It's very clear in the documents that this monument is to celebrate the Canadia

Veterans Affairs committee  We felt disappointed, hurt and outraged that the highest authority in Canada had acted that way. We thought it was a total injustice. We're very concerned about the federal government's willingness to discredit a democratic process. The fact remains that these are important comp