Mr. Speaker, my question for the hon. member for Guelph—Wellington has to do with the throne speech and what is lacking in it, which is that there is absolutely no reference whatsoever to veterans or the merchant navy veterans.
The hon. member's government took $182 million away from the veterans programs in the last three and a half years. The merchant navy veterans have never been treated equally. Five years ago $100 million was put into a fund that was allocated for them to become equal. However, the government legislation made them ineligible to have access to it. They came to me and asked for help. There are only 2,100 of them left out of the 12,000.
What is the hon. member's government going to do to correct the error it has made and help those veterans become eligible for the veterans programs? It should put more money back into the last post fund and all the programs it has removed.