I had a call today just before question period from a veteran in P.E.I.
You will recall, Verna and Pat, that I was over in Dieppe, France. I have had a couple of trips with the veterans.
Now, this veteran was very concerned about the veterans who were going because of their having to be two to a room in the hotel. He was very upset about that. He said some may like two to a room, but not everybody likes that; it doesn't work out well. He asked me, are they looking after us this time? When I asked him what he meant, he said, well, as you'll recall, we were in a hotel that was so hot.... And I do remember that. It was Mr. Mifflin at the time. It was a hotel downtown. The veteran said, we didn't have any air conditioning, and when they put us outside, they sat us in the sun, but all the officials and everybody had covers over where they were seated, so the sun wasn't at them.
Now, Verna, I don't know if you remember, but we had a gentleman, when I was over there, who collapsed. All the time I was there, I wheeled him in the wheelchair. They called his wife to bring her over, but she had to pay her way over. When she got there, they didn't allow her to stay in the same hotel as that veteran. And this veteran must have been with us, because he remembers that.
So these are things that we have to make sure are corrected.
I remember also that the cadets came to me and asked me if I could get them an iron and an ironing board. I went down to the desk and they gave me an iron. The iron was like the one my great-grandmother had. I heated it on the stove and took the whole rear end out of my dress.
Remember, Verna? It took the whole end out of my dress. I kept that dress.
Finally I got in touch with Mr. Tobin, and he went down and got a proper iron. But you see, that was in the other hotel.
So we have to make sure the veterans are put in a hotel that is stated as number one, where they have air conditioning, where they do have an iron and an ironing board for the cadets and everything else. And when they go out there, if they're going to sit on the beach, we have to make sure that they do have some kind of seating arrangement whereby they're not going to be in the sun.
That's all I'm asking, Verna.