Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the work that our officials do here for Canadians; I thank them for their presence and expertise here today.
In regard to the mineral tax credit, I just want to say on record again that we heard from the Chamber of Mines when we were in Yellowknife, that they were seeking a three-year extension for that increased certainty. I applaud the efforts of the member across the way, because I actually think it should be five years. If we're going to see development of our minerals at some point, there needs to be more certainty in that area. I obviously don't need to broach that, but I just wanted to say that it's an important policy.
Following off Mr. Julian's comments in regard to Veterans Affairs, first of all, this committee member would certainly be in favour of seeing more information as to the benefits and programming that are going to be discontinued, and ensuring that there is an equal or net gain for our veterans. That's important, particularly when we have veterans groups coming to this committee.
I would just ask, through this budget implementation bill and the legislation it entails, is there an automatic enrolment for those who will be losing those subsidies in favour of the new subsidy?