Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for appearing in front of our committee. I listened with great care to your presentation.
I would just mention that I served in Afghanistan as a military person in the regular forces. I retired—from Petawawa—in 2009. That was before the transformation started, and I can tell you that I was not very much impressed about how the release from the Canadian Forces towards Veterans Affairs was shifting.
Can you elaborate on how you are looking at this new transformation phase that we are contemplating—the correlation between DND and Veterans Affairs, what project initiatives are contemplated—and on whatever you can do so that the forces members who are retiring from the army, not necessarily only the wounded but all the people who are retiring and are becoming new veterans, can benefit from the services from Veterans Affairs? Perhaps you could elaborate on the services and what they are.
For example, career counselling services were not very much present in 2009. Even though I'm an engineer by profession—