Thanks, Chair.
Thanks to you both for your testimony and for the work of the organization.
I think it's a particularly powerful example of the response of Canadian society because of your beginnings in 2006 when we were, for the first time in decades, in serious, large-scale combat in Kandahar. We were doing that on behalf of Canadians but in the context of a NATO mission where the NATO forces had never been in combat as NATO forces, and we needed a response from Canadian society above and beyond the response from the government.
Everyone has been changed by this experience—I totally agree with that assessment—and in some respects for the better. Experience is always a great school. But clearly with the clients you're dealing with, who are close to our hearts for the purposes of this report, they have been changed in ways that have generated suffering and need, to which you have responded.
Thank you for describing the evolution.
Give us a sense of what your vision is for Wounded Warriors in the next four or five years.
Also, to what extent do you formally or informally try to ensure that roles and responsibilities with regard to those in need across Canada are more and more coherently shared among the many organizations that are out there, some of them very small scale, and some of them very local, and some of them absolutely national? Do you have a formal process of consultation?
I know that we all see each other—True Patriot Love, Soldier On, yourselves, and many other organizations—but how comfortable are you that a serious discussion about roles and priorities is taking place within that community?