Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, for just a brief second. I have a hard stop as I have to leave for our heritage centre board meeting, and I wanted to say thanks to everyone. Congratulations on this conversation and good luck in your efforts. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. I can be very crisp on this. We have many young people who are lamenting the fact they can't get out and socialize. We have many young women and men in this country 18 to 25 years old, 30 years old, who want to be cause supportive. If we give them a cause, it can be

Veterans Affairs committee  It's an interesting question. I think that for solutions to determine the best way collectively as Canadians to honour these people—those who lost their lives as well as those who suffered—there needs to be a broader conversation. We spend an awful lot of time, and rightfully s

Veterans Affairs committee  We are moving forward. It is not a process that has a playbook, so we are creating it with Canadian Heritage at the table. I would like to say that this process is moving at the speed of business or the speed that we would like, but it's not. It's a slow process, and while we hav

Veterans Affairs committee  Those are both very good questions, and thank you. I can guarantee this. There will be many people who say that $44 million is too much and many others who will say it's not enough. Such is your world of politics. I would suggest that if you give enough time for people to ramp

Veterans Affairs committee  My apologies, Cathay.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's an important question, and as I indicated earlier, your task is critical. I would reiterate, as I and others have said, how important it is that our national brand and our care of remembrance globally be recognized and financed to the extent that we can and that we need to.

Veterans Affairs committee  The first thing I would suggest is to make sure that we don't lose anything in terms of the physical presence that we have overseas or in Canada, and that's critical because once we lose that...the Vimy centre, for example. Second, put monies and efforts through the organizatio

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Steve McLellan. I'm the volunteer board chair of the RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. I'm speaking to you proudly from Treaty No. 4 territory and homeland of the Métis people. Heroes and incredible