Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague and good friend from the great area of Cape Breton--Canso has said it absolutely right. I have the letter, we have the letter and the House has the letter written to Joyce Carter of St. Peter's, Cape Breton.
What kind of individual, what kind of human being, has a letter written on his behalf to a widow of a World War II veteran and promises that once his party forms the government the VIP extension will done immediately for all widows of all veterans regardless of application and income? If the Prime Minister of the country is willing to break his promise, to break his word, to the widow of a veteran, Danny Williams and Rodney MacDonald are easy pickings.
Let us try to imagine that. I do not know how the Prime Minister actually looks the Canadian people in the eye, looks veterans in the eye or looks soldiers in the eye and tells them that, by the way, as for their spouses, they had better not believe anything he says because he will break his word over and over again.
My hon. colleague has been representing Joyce Carter for many years. He is as frustrated as I am at that this promise to a widow of a veteran has been broken. It is no wonder and no surprise that the Prime Minister would also break a promise to his two political colleagues, the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and the premier of Nova Scotia.
More importantly, he broke his word to the good people of those provinces. For that, we will make sure he wears it come the next election.