That's okay, not a problem.
I listened very carefully to the comments that have been made, and I think I'm probably closest to being on the same page with Roger and Bev. One of the things I find interesting, being the only woman on this committee, is that sometimes women think a little differently from men. I have an opinion, obviously. What woman doesn't have an opinion? In terms of what we're looking at here for options, I don't think my opinion really matters that much. I think the opinion that matters is the opinion of the veterans groups and the individuals we've had here as witnesses. We're supposed to be taking a look at the consensus that the opinions from those witnesses outlined.
My opinion, which I have obviously, doesn't really matter. But I want to be able to take the information that's in front of us on this sheet and I want to be able to answer this based on what the majority of the witnesses who came in front of us feel and not what I feel, never having been a veteran. When I'm talking about agreeing with Mr. Valley, that's what I'm referring to.
I'll take a step back. I have a seven-year-old car. My husband is getting ready to buy a new one and he drives me crazy. Every time I turn around he's giving me statistics. What he's ended up doing is putting a spreadsheet together, and exactly as I mentioned earlier, there are Xs in all the boxes on the features that he wants. What I'd like to see, with what we have in front of us as information, is a spreadsheet that says this group and that group all agreed they want this; this and that group all agreed they didn't want this. Then we have a spreadsheet that has all of the questions in front of us answered from all of the witnesses who have come forward.
It isn't about what I think, or what Mr. Valley thinks, or Mr. Perron thinks; it's about what these groups of witnesses who are involved in the organizations we're supposed to be serving think.
I know Christmas is coming, but I'm asking Michel to put together some kind of spreadsheet, like the car thing, that has Xs in the boxes, so that I can read it at a glance and know what the features are that veterans wanted the most.