Whatever it is, thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Mr. Daigle, in your report that you've referenced—in fact, I was at that meeting when you did brief us—Chief Justice Lamer and the CDS said that the CDS should have the authority to grant financial compensation. We've talked about that.
You referred to a previous statement of the Minister of National Defence in his July 12 letter to you committing to take action on that. He did outline that after nine years of not a lot of progress in that area, the minister did get approval from Treasury Board last June, such that the CDS could make ex gratia payments. There's a commitment to revisit that after a year.
We do agree that obviously everybody would like to see all things move a lot faster than they do, but a lot of these issues are sensitive, and not necessarily simple. Would you agree this is a step in the right direction and that we do need to embark on these things with some sensitivity to the complexity of the process?