Mr. Speaker, I am afraid the hon. member is chasing after red herrings.
The special duty area was created in 1988, if the member wants to know the facts of the matter, which is before the first gulf conflict.
In any event, none of that is at all to the point. The central point, as I have said many times, is that all of the people, the exchange officers in Iraq, get precisely the same benefits today as they would had Canada decided to participate in the war. That is the critical point.