Thank you.
Related to this, some members in the House, including me, have had the honour and the sad duty to be involved in the funeral and memorial services for a couple of soldiers killed in action recently in Afghanistan. It was a very unsettling, sad experience for me.
I'm wondering if the bill of rights shouldn't include families who have had a loved one killed in action. When was that soldier ever a veteran? They didn't become veterans; they were killed in action. Are the families to be treated as the families of veterans? Consider the debate we held about a year ago on what to do when a soldier is returned to Canada--the flag issue, the return ceremony, and how to treat the families. I was very impressed, by the way, with the support the families had in the community around the services. I was very impressed with that.
In your opinion, should this bill of rights include issues in that nebulous grey zone around the death of a soldier, the return, and the eventual settlement by the family of whatever benefits are available to them, or do we wait until some time well after that before we treat them as a veteran's family?