Further to that, Mr. Chair, you also have a request from me and from the Widows on a Warpath group to do with Agent Orange. I know they've asked to come and speak to the committee.
There's a book by Chris Arsenault on the Agent Orange issue that you can get from the Library of Parliament. It's a small booklet; it's not a whole lot of reading. I say this in a totally non-partisan way. I've read that book and I've done some more research on it, and it's really quite appalling what happened there: the fact that many of our soldiers were used as guinea pigs to test out chemicals that were used in the Vietnam War. They couldn't test it on U.S. soldiers and they tested it on ours.
I'm raising the issue because I think we can't ignore that but should do whatever we can possibly do to raise that issue and talk more about it. We shouldn't be forgetting about the kinds of chemicals that were used then that we may be feeling the effects of today. Where it would go I'm not sure, but we're talking about veterans here, people who are suffering still today as a result of those chemicals. If you actually got the book from the Library of Parliament or purchased it, I think you would share my concerns. I think it's worthy of our spending some time on that.
I just put that out there. I know you have the request. But I think it's quite an appalling issue that happened in those days, and I think we need to have that awareness, as members of Parliament, on some of these things.