Okay. I can answer that with a question, sir. Are you a member of Parliament or an advocate? A member of Parliament gets benefits. An advocate doesn't: You get paid by the hour.
Being a war veteran.... It was earned. You were there. You made that sacrifice. You had to prepare your family. You have to prepare, and when you're finished and you come back, it closes that mission. People in the military are programmed to complete missions. We do things. You give us a task and we complete it. If I'm tasked to do a peacekeeping mission and I come back, I'm a peacekeeper. I got that, and I got the medal, but completing a mission and saying, “Well, it was a conflict. Are we going to work on technicalities here? It's not really a war”.... To me, as a frontline soldier—I'm not talking about commanders or admirals, but as a frontline soldier—I'm a war vet. Again, everyone else can recognize that. Why can't my own government recognize that? It's institutional betrayal.
Calling it something just to wordsmith it so that it sounds better for political reasons really shortchanges a soldier, and it runs against your credibility as a government. I say “your” because I'm a master corporal and I do not have the ability to make that change, and there are thousands of retired people who cannot make that change. We take our orders from the Government of Canada. That's for you to figure out how to get it fixed, not me.