I represent the Green Party of Canada. As the leader of the Green Party of Canada, I'm happy to present this amendment to clause 12.
The attempt here is to treat the survivors of veterans in the same fashion. We've had changes in this bill that we make sure that the definition of veteran allows all members who have been honourably released from the Canadian armed forces, who have accumulated at least three years of service, to benefit from the veterans hiring act. But we have restricted the meaning of survivor of a veteran to those who are survivors of—well, I think for all practical purposes we don't really. Survivors is World War I and World War II but basically it's restricted to veterans' surviving spouses from the Second World War and not those who are survivors of a veteran who has passed who has served three years. So, it's an attempt to equalize so that survivors of veterans are treated the same throughout the act.