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I am truly disappointed and concerned for the welfare of our young people whom the government is now sending into a combat situation, having a long tradition of a once very proud participation of my family in Canada's military, having served in the second world war and Korea and now my son in the Canadian Armed Forces participating in the peacekeeping roles. It makes me and my son truly embarrassed at what Liberal governments have done in the last 30 years to the Canadian military, once one of the proudest organizations in the world with much to be proud of.
We have expressed great concern with the variability of the government to put that kind of a combat battalion in the field equipped to do the job and to rotate it on a regular basis and to avoid the battle fatigue and the problems we faced in the peacekeeping role in Yugoslavia.
To begin again, after some of our soldiers have put in four tours of duty in the former Yugoslavia and all the problems that has caused with the families and children of those people, there are grave concerns as to our ability to do that and at the same time preserve some kind of family structure for those involved.
Again, I am truly disappointed. I wish the government would be honest and provide a chance for some democracy in this place.