Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I remember when the new veterans charter came in, in 2006, just as we were sending so many young people to Kandahar. The idea of a lump sum pension was going to be somehow better than a proper full life pension. I thought about it, because I come from mining country. In the mines, when you're young, you're indestructible, and then you start to get injured, but of course, you're young and indestructible. My office is always full of people who are in their forties and fifties, when the injuries catch up, and obviously that was going to happen coming out of the war.
We had people who were injured in 2005, as you pointed out, and they got a whole different deal than they would have in 2007. How is it that Canada could get away with doing something that was so obviously shortchanging people who were actually going into combat?