None, because I'm not covered by the new Veterans Charter. Between 2005 and 2006, 35,000 people applied to VA for benefits, so they would not be covered by the new Veterans Charter. The RCMP, which is also a member of the veterans community in this country, rejected the NVC.
I pose a question to you, sir: do you support discrimination? The reason I ask that, sir, is that you're saying the new Veterans Charter will continue to be around, yet it doesn't benefit me, it doesn't benefit Louise, and I'm not sure about Mr. Fraser. Those of us who fall through the cracks are still covered by the original Pension Act.
As a member of your party, the Honourable Greg Thompson said that “...the new charter marks a long-overdue updating of the first charter...”. That was in his presentation to the Senate on May 31, 2006. He was wrong on several counts.
First of all, the new charter is a separate piece of legislation. The first legislation does not date back to 1945. It was introduced before that. So we now have two supposed charters when there's only one type of veteran. If I can't have the same benefits under one charter as I would under the other charter, that's discrimination, according to the legislation that you people produce every day.