I think it's certainly a good idea and I'll personally be supporting the motion.
I will be checking, though, just to see what happened at the 80th. I think, as much as we want to respect our veterans, there is a role for parliamentarians in all of this too. I don't want to set a precedent that parliamentarians are going to be forever ignored in the future by the minister of the day, whether Conservative, Liberal, Bloc Québécois, or anything else. I just put it on the record that I'm concerned about a precedent.
I am going to check and see what happened for the 80th. If it's been standard practice forever that it was just the minister and a minimum of support staff who went to these things, fine. I don't think that's the case, however. If we're always going to be backstopping the minister through our committee all the time....
The veterans are absolutely important in all this, but so too is our role as parliamentarians. We don't always know that the budget committee of the House is going to approve these things. I think the minister should know that it isn't without some questioning that this position is being taken.