Questions, Statements, and Debate

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Mr. Speaker, Parkwood Hospital in London, Ontario plans to close 72 veteran care beds. The problem is that veterans hospitals are only mandated to care for World War II and Korean war vets.

Does the Minister of Veterans Affairs have the wisdom to change the mandate for Parkwood and other veterans hospitals so that Canadian Forces personnel and RCMP who have served in peacekeeping missions and combat deployment since the Korean war would be eligible to access the same benefits and services offered to earlier generations?

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Mr. Speaker, Two weeks ago, this government presented a budget in which it claimed that maternal and child health worldwide would be a priority of Canada’s G8 and G20 Summit year.

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Mr. Speaker, according to representatives from the non-profit sector, only one in twelve non-profit infrastructure stimulus applications were approved by Infrastructure Canada.

In London, two very worthy projects, the Spriet Centre for the safe storage and display of artifacts at Fanshawe Pioneer Village and the Arctic Gallery Project at the Children's Museum of London, which works to educate our children about Canada's north, were among those denied any federal funding.

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Mr. Speaker, the Minister of State for Status of Women claims to be an advocate who has worked to increase prosperity for women.

Ms. Irene Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP):

Mr. Speaker, less than four months before the third national aboriginal women's summit, we have learned that the government has revoked its funding.