Mr. Speaker, when we sat down with the leadership of the veterans organizations, we were facing six urgent veterans issues.
They included: benefits for children of members of the forces killed in the line of duty; Canadian, allied and overseas veterans; and older veterans. As per the latter, we did not want to distinguish between health needs due to infirmities and those due to pension conditions.
One of the issues was the extension of the VIP. We did what we could with what we had.