Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate that.
I appreciate this opportunity, because this is an issue that's been dogging a lot of us for a long time. I've gotten hundreds and hundreds of e-mails and a lot of feedback from people.
When I explain it to people, they go, “Yes, I get it, but I don't like it.” Well, I don't like it either. It's just the truth. You know, we get what we pay for.
I know that my picture's on a lot of dartboards in legions across the country. That's just the way it goes. But we will continue--I will continue--to support the members of the Canadian Forces, retired and serving, as I know Mr. Stoffer will.
We really are all doing the best we can. I take no pleasure, as I said, in opposing people that I care for. We have to be honest and we have to be realistic and we have to do the best we can, but we have to do it within legal and logical parameters. That's all we're trying to do.
Thank you.