Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Veterans Affairs has two important files on his desk and I ask him if he will have cabinet deal with them today?
The first is to give approval to the compensation settlement agreed upon by the merchant mariners. Second, the German government appears to have made a decision to provide compensation for some prisoners of war.
Is the minister aware of this and will he ensure that those brave Canadian soldiers wrongfully sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp will finally receive a just settlement beyond the insulting pittance given a year ago? Will the minister and his cabinet bring joy at Christmastime to the merchant mariners and our Buchenwald survivors?