Dear Editor,
Re Disabled Veterans
Despite the Ontario Appeal Court's technical ruling against the disabled veterans and their families which supports the vile act of the Brian Mulroney parliament to disown veterans and their families of their estates, the moral outrage is alive and visceral.
(My own father was a war hero who was wounded at Rimini, Italy.)
Even the judges in the original case made it plain they were holding their noses in favour of the technical right of parliament to block interest on veterans' pensions before 1990. Throughout this ugly process over the years, judges have characterized that parliamentary move as outright theft. Ottawa has always admitted mismanaging the veterans’ funds as far back as the First World War, by failing to invest the money or to credit them with any interest.
Only Prime Minister Stephen Harper can set this moral compass right. That sole responsibility during these trying times among our soldiers and their families belongs now to him alone. Now that all the fed lawyers have been paid (at enormous taxpayers' expense), make a decent offer, Mr Prime Minister.
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