Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity again to speak. In representing the riding of Richmond Centre, I know that there are several veterans in my riding who have been living there and encountering difficulties, especially with the world we live in right now.
The thing I'm hearing from them is that they want to know how we will be able to provide the support to them so that they can have the dignity to continue after their service to Canada and sacrificing their time and effort and all of this to serve the country. It's important for us to really acknowledge that, and it continues to give us a responsibility as a government to support the veterans who have served the country. Really, we should put our focus on talking about the possible studies that could be useful for the government. Our role as parliamentarians is to represent not just the people from our ridings but Canadians across this country.
I have had the privilege of hearing stories from some of the veterans and some of those who served in Afghanistan, and what I'm hearing from them is, “Let's get this going.” Since we have broken ground, we did the opening ceremony and we acknowledged the design from Team Stimson, we should continue. Not to speak more about this, I think it's important for us to move on and vote on that amendment and then, hopefully, we can consider some of the amendments that are being brought forward by our caucus.
That's it.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.