Mr. Speaker, last week, the minister tried to justify spending tens of millions of dollars more on advertisements and commemorations, instead of programs and services, by telling Canadians about all of the veterans who received $10,000 a month in benefits. There are four who receive that amount. That is less than 1% of seriously injured veterans. Most get much less.
It is insulting to veterans to justify wasteful advertising spending by trying to make it sound like, somehow, they just won the lottery.
When will he stop running away from our veterans and finally provide them with the care they desperately need and deserve?