I just want to make it really clear that I would certainly have hoped that we could have a vote today too. I'm quite worried that this may not in fact happen now.
Just to provide a little bit of context, we have a Prime Minister whose government spent several years just trying to get a design for a monument. In November 2021, they were informed of a design that had won a competition that they had set up. Over the course of a year and a half following that, the government for some reason or other, which is unknown to anybody except the Prime Minister and his office and maybe a few other individuals, spent a year and a half trying to find a way to change the decision, despite all of the advice that we've seen as a committee that came from the departments involved—Veterans Affairs and Canadian Heritage—saying that this is absolutely what should happen.
Here we have again a situation of a Prime Minister who has this pattern of disrespect for our veterans. He was the one who told them that they were asking for more than he could give. He's the one who—