Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have been fortunate. In 2003, I went to South Korea together with some 100 veterans and officials from the department. I travelled with Vic Toews, who is now Minister of Justice. There were other MPs, but they are no longer here. I am learning. In 2003, I was new to this House and I was not very aware of all this. I found it quite moving to see these veterans who went to visit cemeteries and had tears in their eyes when reading on tombs the name of people that they still remembered after more than 50 years.
I have been listening to you from the start. Two months later, after coming back from South Korea, I tried to give blood to Héma-Québec and my blood was rejected because I had not been back from Korea for a long enough period. I was told that you have to wait one year, because I had been in the militarized zone where the war was waged. We were the first civilians to go there. I believe that it is located between the 25th and the 35th parallels. It could have been the Red Cross or whatever. Héma-Québec refused to take my blood because there was something. If there had been an ombudsman, you could have had more rights.
What do you think?