Madam Speaker, for all the rhetoric and melodrama that we have been exposed to today by Conservatives about their support for veterans, can the member explain to Canadians why two nights ago he and all of his colleagues voted against $900 million worth of supports for veterans?
Before he goes on about it being a budget bill, that Conservatives are opposed to budget bills by default and they will always vote against them because they vote against the government, I will say that it would have been very simple for the member to ask for the items related to Veterans Affairs to be removed from the vote and voted on separately. It would have been possible for him to have just voted on the $900 million for veterans and voted against everything else.
Can the member tell us why he voted against the $900 million worth of supports to veterans only two nights ago?