Well, we'll be watching, because I think there are a lot of veterans out there who are concerned. I don't doubt your intentions and your willingness to work hard, but one cannot have as many files as you have and give them all full-time attention. I certainly hope that veterans will see that they do get some better attention than they deserve under a part-time minister.
Let me turn instead now to this issue I want to raise with you about 82-year-old veteran Jim DeMarce. He's the president of the Penticton Legion. He was violently attacked by a number of thugs on his way home from the Legion one night. He expressed, because of the lack of a proper criminal justice system under your government and of proper punishment for criminals, that he was even reluctant to report the crime because he felt like the offenders would just get off scot-free.
Of the veterans that you are there to represent, one of them was violently attacked as a result of the weak criminal justice policies of your government. Would you now, after knowing that, finally support the commonsensical proposal of Pierre Poilievre to ensure that it's jail and not bail for repeat violent offenders?