Mr. Speaker, I had a number of round tables with veterans from my riding of Oakville about three years ago to ask how things were for them and whether they were able to access services. I heard uniformly that they were having difficulty accessing services. I heard from a mother whose son had served, a veteran who suffered from PTSD, and the concerns she had about adequate support and adequate treatment for veterans.
That is why I am so glad to see that our government has been reinvesting in veterans, has opened the new centre of excellence for post-traumatic stress disorder, and has launched the joint suicide prevention strategy along with the Canadian Armed Forces.
My question to the member is, where was he? Where was he during the 10 years when the Conservatives lost the trust of the veterans community? Where was he when it came to improving mental health services? Where was he when the Auditor General said that the Conservatives were not doing enough to facilitate veterans' timely access to mental health services and benefits? Where was he during that decade?