Fraser Tolmie

Okay. I'll continue on. We have veterans who are being threatened that if they change providers, they will lose their benefits. There is no continuity of care, as Ms. Hicks brought up, because veterans are being forced to leave care providers with whom they already have relationships and established care programs to go with something through PCVRS or Lifemark. That relationship is broken, so [more]

No, I'll continue on. I have other questions. We have heard from veterans who have gone through sanctuary trauma, now institutional harm. I'm going to argue that hearing the witnesses today.... It is survivor bias. The reports that you're getting are from people who have gone through the system and not from vets who have had challenges because they're being threatened with losing their benefits. [more]

That's the essence of the problem: It's your view. I want the veteran's view of care, and I'm not hearing that from this panel. I'll let you continue on.

Your understanding is different from saying that it was tabled and that we received it. I'd like to have an answer.

What other choices do they have?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to piggyback on some of the comments that were made earlier. When I'm sitting here in this chair, I cannot tell the difference between VAC, PCVRS and Lifemark. I want to know where the line of accountability is for veterans. I'd like to thank my colleague across the aisle for going through all the recommendations and getting one-word answers, but I'm going [more]

Mr. Speaker, in 1991, Canadian men and women in uniform answered the call to defend Kuwait. Operation Friction deployed nearly 4,500 Canadian Forces members to the Persian Gulf. They served with distinction alongside coalition partners to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. For the first time in our history, women served alongside men in combat roles. Canada would answer that call again after [more]

Mr. Speaker, that answer does not deal with the crisis of bad Liberal policies in my province. There is an emergency. Farmers across my riding have been sounding the alarm bell for years. The ban on strychnine has led to uncontrolled gopher populations devastating crops. The Government of Saskatchewan, rural municipalities and farmers have called for emergency access to strychnine. The Liberal [more]