We know the Conservatives like to have their picture taken with the vets, especailly around Remembrance Day. But the reality for them is that soldiers are, for the most part, middle to lower-middle class people, and the point of the exercise is to transfer wealth from them to the rich. They don't like entitlement programs. They've managed to turn a lot of Canadians against them, from subsidized tuition, to welfare, to Employment Insurance, to civil service pensions. All welll and good, but most Canadians feel we owe our veterans a little entitlement. Fantino's probably raking in $300K a year with the perqs. That's a lot more than buddy patrrolling Kandahar.
