Madam, I can see that a double standard could be at play here. In your presentation, veterans and ordinary people who are getting older— people like me who are 66 years of age, and my father— are not treated the same way.
It is all well and good to want to help veterans, but it is important to think about the aging members of the general population as well. This is a problem in Quebec, in Ontario and in all other provinces, especially in remote areas. We need to remember that Canada is a country made up of remote areas. It is one thing to receive treatment in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, but it is quite another matter when you come from Elliot Lake, like one of my colleagues, or from Saint-Lin-des-Laurentides.