Thank you very much.
Generally, at the Committee on Veterans Affairs, there's no partisanship but it would seem that your illness must not be affecting public opinion because as soon as public opinion reaches government... If you take for instance what happened in the Maher Arar case, we see there have been apologies, he has received millions of dollars. Public opinion got involved. You referred to aboriginals earlier on. The Japanese also received an apology and compensation for what happened to them during the Second World War. It would seem that public opinion is not behind you. It reminds me of Shannon, in Quebec, and its tainted water. It's as though public opinion is absent, that you're going nowhere, that governments are not interested in you.
Earlier on my colleague, the parliamentary secretary, said that you were only expecting $20,000. That is nothing to my mind. Ms. Hudson, you have said you have had many problems. You listed eight of them in your letter, but I think it is in that respect that you are trying to find solutions, far more than the $20,000.