Dear Editor
As we approach Remembrance Day a step forward for those who served and survived has been taken.
Veteran Affairs Minister Blaney has agreed to investigate the contention of veterans that illnesses they have are the result of coming into contact with depleted uranium while serving overseas.
That we are able to communicate almost instantly by Internet would have been in the realm of science fiction only a few years ago. Advances have been made is diagnosing which can determine the degree and the nature of radioactivity in our veterans. And advances as well in removing the toxins from their bodies.
"It's a committee that will have a broad mandate," Minister Blaney has promised.
Expectation is the committee will investigate each and every means of determining which view is correct: that of the Veterans Affairs Department, "it's unlikely any Canadian troops were contaminated by the substance," or that of Pascal Lacoste and other veterans, that they continue to suffer from the effects of depleted uranium particles entering their bodies and negatively affecting them.
Both Pascal Lacoste and Minister Blaney are to be commended. Pascal for putting his life on the line. The minister for undertaking to investigate every means of determining the root cause of the suffering of our veterans.
Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls, Ont.
