Thank you.
I also would like to acknowledge that we're doing business on the unceded traditional territory of Algonquin Anishinabe people.
I want to thank you for your service, and all of you, for the work that you're doing at the friendship centres. I have two friendship centres in my riding, the Port Alberni Friendship Centre and the Wachiay Friendship Centre in the Comox Valley. They play an important role not just for indigenous people, but for reconciliation and bringing our communities together. In fact, we have a lot of meetings at the friendship centres.
We had some town halls this summer and we listened to veterans. We had five town halls on veterans. At one of the town halls, a more holistic approach—you talked about it earlier—came to fruition. There was a lack of services that were holistic and health-related. Maybe you could speak to taking a holistic approach—a more natural type of approach around the needs of aboriginal veterans. Could you speak to how maybe some of the requirements at Veterans Affairs need to be relaxed or adapted to serve indigenous veterans and Métis veterans?