Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Liberal Party has decided to keep his veterans' spokesman even after that Liberal MP slammed veterans as recently as last week. In the latest gaffe he said:
A lot of the veterans were in the army. We taught them one skill: to kill or be killed, to survive in order to be able to kill tomorrow....
Who could forget the same Liberal MP going on national television on Remembrance Day, saying that giving money to injured veterans was:
...like hanging a case of beer in front of a drunk.... They get the lump sum, they go and spend it,...on booze or addiction.
As a veteran of the RCMP who, like many other military veterans, struggles with PTSD every day, I find these comments to be disrespectful and uninformed.
This may be how the Liberal Party feels, but Canadians know veterans can be, and should be, trusted to manage their own finances. Canadians also know veterans have remarkable skills and experiences that organizations across all sectors would be lucky to have. Why does the Liberal Party not know it?
I call on the leader of the Liberal Party to remove his spokesman immediately.