Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. I would agree with Mr. Garrison that what you're contributing today is extremely important to the discussion we're currently having. On Monday night we had a four-hour committee of the whole session with the minister, at which time we were able to ask him some questions about the reservists in particular. I can tell you that, given his experience, he's absolutely committed to making sure that reservists play an important role in the defence of Canada.
We've talked a lot about recruiting, and I want to continue to go down this road. Mr. Selkirk, when you came to see me in my office in Kingston, this was one of the things we talked about quite a bit. We talked about some of the reasons being medical or security, but tell us how this is different from what it was maybe 10 years ago. If the wait time is now six to 12 months, what was it 10 or 15 years ago?