Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I also welcome you both to our committee. It's nice to see you again.
A report was released today by the DND/CF ombudsman—ombudsperson, I suppose—into the medical treatment for reservists. I'm sure you've had a chance to go through it. It was really very scathing I think in its observations and some of its conclusions as well. In reading the report, it was pretty clear that there's not a significant level of tracking going on with the care with respect to reservists.
I want to ask you why there would be this gap in services between what a reserve soldier would receive and what a regular forces soldier would receive. I don't understand why it would be this way. Part of the report said, for instance, that for the loss of a limb, a reservist may get 40% entitlement compared to what a regular soldier might get.
I'm sure you've read the report. There were some very troubling kinds of conclusions and statements made with the report.
I just want to ask you why there would be this different level of medical services to reservists. Clearly, it's gone on a long time. What's the basis for it? How did it come to be this way? And what's going to be done to correct it?