Yes.
That is a great question—great question—on the lack of a process and the systemic issue.
Take everything the military has done since 1950. We didn't declare war on Korea. We didn't declare war on Iraq. We didn't declare war on Afghanistan. We only declared war on Germany and Japan. In those circumstances, it was rather obvious, but for everything since 1950, National Defence has put those military veterans on active service, classified them as special duty veterans and sent them off to do their business.
The veterans go off. They serve their country. Some of them die and don't come home. Those who come home are still wearing uniforms. They can't do anything. Eventually, they get out and become veterans. They become aware of issues, such as missing benefits and commemoration not being appropriate to their service. They start advocating. This is where we are. We are at this stage of the game. We are here to advocate for ourselves, because officially, we're the only ones we can talk about. However, as a concerned veteran, I would like to ensure that future veterans don't have to go through this process.
This idiocy has to cease. It's not fair. It's not transparent. Veterans have died before even knowing that they're wartime service veterans. I'm 66 years old. I don't know if I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning. It's possible. We're getting older. When we rededicated the National War Memorial in 2014, we put the Boer War on it. Those guys were long gone. They weren't wartime service veterans, in Canada's opinion, until 2014.