I grew up...and there were 33 members of the Legion. It was mandatory for all of us to join the Legion. My father was a veteran, landed on D-Day. I've lived through many of those experiences of the day-long discussions. With my father, his opinion of Veterans Affairs was always on the negative side, right from the time he was...I forget the term, when they were actually released from the army, but they had a pay they were allowed to access. It took him years and years just to access that.
He had the ability. He was an educated man and had all the ability of living in a town of, at that time, 5,000 people, which wasn't bad. With many of the issues in northern Ontario, where they had no services or they were first nations, they simply didn't have the ability.
I'm getting the sign. Thank you very much for coming today.