Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Through you to the witnesses, I say thank you to them for appearing today.
I have just a few quick comments. I was watching the news some time ago when of course there was a breakthrough with regard to a double amputee from the Iraq war. You saw him walk towards the cameras on stage, as it were.
It reminded me of our trip to Downsview and the facility there. I don't know if it was there or here, but we were told that some of the great advances in medicine, particularly with regard to transplants and those types of issues, were as a result of our experience in war. It reminds me of my wife saying “un mal pour un bien”, which means that out of something bad comes something good. Would you say that's a fairly accurate statement and that what we've learned in trauma on the battlefield can sometimes, as bad as it sounds, yield good outcomes to medical science?