Thank you very much, Ms. Blaney. That's a great question.
If the Canadian government can afford to take billions of injury dollars away from its most vulnerable Canadians who served for them, it can certainly afford to give them back. That is the only answer I have. If you had properly classified these missions as wartime service and paid people appropriately, we wouldn't be having the discussion about having to turn over billions of dollars to veterans to fix it.
However, I say to you that if the Government of Canada is strong enough to take money from injured veterans who can't fight for themselves, it is certainly strong enough to pay for those people when they're caught doing bad things.
My answer to you is yes. I'll remind you that we had one million World War I and two million World War II veterans, and we have the RCMP veterans who have always been paid this benefit since the beginning of time. If Canada could afford to pay for them since the 1900s, there's no reason why 40,000 Afghan veterans, 40,000 Bosnia veterans and 400 Rwanda veterans and so on, who were all placed on active service and forced by the elected officials of this country to go to a foreign country and put their lives at risk....
Come on. I don't think I'm saying anything that's unfair or unjust. If the government has been doing it, it can continue to do it. It has a lack of will to pay up. It should have thought of that before it gave veterans' money away to other agencies within Canada. Right...?
Thank you.