Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
It's a fortuitous day for you to appear before our committee. It's not only Navy Appreciation Day on the Hill, it's also Rainbow Day on the Hill. I have some students here shadowing some of the six out gay MPs today.
I want to echo the thanks for the work you do as ombudsman and for your focus on practical solutions that will actually make things better. I think you've done an enormously important task in getting your office focused on this area.
I want to ask you about something to start with today that is very specific, which I have discussed with you in the past. That's the situation we have remaining in Canada whereby thousands of Canadians who served honourably in the Canadian Forces were discharged based on their sexual orientation or gender identity up to 1992. Those Canadians, many of them still alive and still in the workforce, carry dishonourable discharges.
My question is about the competence and jurisdiction of your office. Could you, if you were asked, deal with the question of revising service records for those who were dismissed on that basis?