With respect to the Speaker, I don't know if he was taking advice from the House leaders--we don't know the dynamic that was involved there--but I would politely argue to the contrary. I have two points.
We have the Railway Committee Room. We have the Banking Room. We have other rooms.
I'm happy and proud to have been involved in the preparation of Vimy Ridge Day, and hopefully Peacekeepers Day and so on, and those days, in my view, add to the remembrance activities in the country. They add on to November 11. I've always thought that way.
So it would seem to me that having a veterans room, salle des anciens combattants, would enhance.... The Memorial Chamber is not a meeting room. It's just that. I think it's totally in order to have a room so that when the veterans organizations come--or if they're here most of the time--they see it as their room.
What's wrong with appealing and making some additional arguments? If there is agreement, I'd be glad to help Alex add a few points, and everybody else could add their points.