I sincerely think that, if we can't have the idea of creating an ombudsman position adopted before next summer, then we're doing a bad job, unless there's an election very soon.
We simply have to see what's going on in Quebec, where there is the Ombudsman, in Ontario where there's the Ontario ombudsman, in New Brunswick and in British Columbia. There are ombudsmen all across Canada. The banks have their ombudsmen. Don't tell me we have to start over and work for five years in order to find ourselves a super good god. There are laws, and it would be enough to amend them a little to adapt them to the federal government.
I don't understand. I'm going to phone my friend Keith to ask him why he told us five years, because I completely disagree with him. I conclude that Keith doesn't want an ombudsman.
Furthermore — we've said enough about ombudsmen — you complain that you're having trouble being heard by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Wouldn't there be some way to merge your 53 existing veterans associations and to form perhaps one or two, and to have two spokespersons? Right now, there are 53 veterans associations.