Thank you very much for the question, Ms. Blaney. I'll just answer Mr. Desilets' question first.
The Rwandan mission went missing from the Government of Canada and from National Defence for 25 years. It's impossible that we served under General Dallaire and nobody knows anything about what we did. It was to the point where trauma was increasingly difficult for Canadians, because they would try to communicate what their stories were, and in some cases they were called liars, because there was no history within DND. We've discussed it with Dr. Harris. We're going to work together with Dr. Harris to fix that.
Mr. Desilets, I was on a small mission in Iran in 1988. There were only 250 Canadians who were on that mission in Iran. That's just another example. We don't hear about these missions because they're small.
I do agree with you, Dr. Harris, that the ranking of missions is absolutely out of the question, but definitely we do need to....
Mali was not a peacekeeping mission. Mali was a United Nations chapter 7 counterterrorism mission. ISIS did not invite Canadians to come for peacekeeping, which is a requirement. How can you call that a peacekeeping mission unless you're trying to placate Canadians who want to do peacekeeping?
Ms. Blaney, having that accuracy is important to veterans, as is having that camaraderie that has to be in everything we do once we become veterans. Anything with camaraderie that involves Canadians so that they can transparently and openly understand what we've done in these missions around the world is very beneficial psychologically to us because we have an opportunity to speak, but also to Canadians.
My family doesn't even understand what I've been through, because the Government of Canada fails to write anything about our missions. That's a fact.