Madam Speaker, I appreciated hearing from the minister and his perspective on how well the government is doing with our veterans. However, there is a significant disconnect here, because when I speak with veterans, and a number of them to whom the government turns for advice, I do not hear that same level of satisfaction with where things are at, especially in regards to the promises that the government made when it was in the process of campaigning and reaching out across the country to indicate what the Liberals were willing to do for whomever to get their vote.
Of course, we know that those involved in Equitas spent a great deal of time communicating directly with key people who were running on that side of the floor in regards to their portfolio on Veterans Affairs to the point where they were getting calls at Christmastime to make sure they were doing well. They had actual written copy of what was going to be in that platform that they signed off on, and now are very hurt, upset, disgusted and disappointed with what the government promised them in lifelong pensions and what they have actually seen to be received in the upcoming year.
My question to the minister is: Where is the disconnect? Why is there so much unhappiness with what he is saying will be coming forward versus what the veterans themselves, who they actually communicated with, actually feel has come forward on that—