Thank you for coming and enlightening us on some of the concerns we have.
There is a new bill the minister has put in place, and it's Bill C-11, which gives priority to the military veterans to get jobs within the public sector.
A lot of people are being laid off, there are a lot of cutbacks, so we need to see how real that is. However, a military veteran who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or other ailments....
In the military we teach one skill—defend your country, be prepared to stand for it—and that's one skill that we teach and there are other skills that certainly follow it. But a lot of the military personnel might need retraining. If there is no retraining available, for a lot of them, when they get to that job, it will be a flop, a failure, or they will not be able to engage. In order for somebody to get the job they must be retrained. Should we also bring in a caveat that says that if money is needed to retrain that person, that should be the case?
A lot of people who are injured, a lot of people who need to move into another job, need to have some sort of retraining package. Would that make fair sense and be a fair comment from my side?