Mr. Speaker, it takes a special kind of self-serving narcissism and arrogance in planning a day of honour for the brave men and women who served Canada in Afghanistan and then not inviting most of them, telling the families of fallen soldiers to pay their own way, and then choreographing the event into a photo-op. For who? The Prime Minister.
I have heard one veteran say, “He may have us on parade, but we're not happy.”
Disrespect of this magnitude is simply wrong.
Again, will the Prime Minister put the spotlight back on the troops where it belongs?