Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for joining us today, Minister.
With all due respect, you're not the minister of national defence; you're the Minister of Veterans Affairs. According to the very definition given by the Minister of Finance of what an investment is, a definition nobody agrees with, but we'll use it anyway, almost 100% of your budget is for ongoing expenses, not investments. Since nineteen-twentieths of your budget is spent on benefits, that means one twentieth of your budget goes to providing services.
You say you can reduce daily expenses by 15% over three years while maintaining direct services to veterans. Can you confirm you're able to do that?