Thank you very much.
I welcome all of our witnesses here today.
I'd like to talk predominantly to Brigadier-General Ménard and Mr. Wright.
Mr. Ménard, I'm from Nova Scotia, a very coastal community, where we do a lot of work with the Coast Guard. There are some different ways we can work with the Coast Guard, similar to what my colleagues across the way were saying today, in regard to NATO spending. How can we better utilize some of the infrastructure we have within the Coast Guard to help with defence?
In terms of those questions, first, I would like to talk about Nova Scotia in particular. We're home to 7.2% of the veterans in Canada, even though we are only 2.7% of the country's total population. Many of those veterans settle in rural and coastal communities. I'm wondering how the CAF transition group makes sure that the transition planning process reflects the realities of veterans who are returning after serving to communities where things like housing, health care and other services might be limited.