All of us who serve in the military are well aware that we don't have to go to another country to be at risk. I strapped an F-18 pilot in at Cold Lake in 1984. He flew out to the Cold Lake range—Cold Lake, Alberta is maybe 60 or 70 miles away—and never came back. That same summer, there was a technician in the back of a T-33 who, along with the pilot, never came back.
All of us know that we don't have to be deployed to die. There are at least 1,800 names in the seventh Book of Remembrance, and a large number of those were killed in Canada. We all know that, while we're there, we're potentially going to be.... I think people should be acknowledged for what they do. If I'd really wanted to, I probably could have gotten out of the gulf. You get a medical exam. I don't think it's that difficult to prevent and not do it.