Good morning, Dr. Marshall. Thank you very much. It's been very informative. I've tried to speed-read your report, but I'll have an opportunity later on to go through it in detail. It seems that you did a great deal of work, and it sounds to me like you enjoy very much what you're doing.
There were a couple of comments I would like to correct for the record. You suggested that the new Veterans Charter was implemented in 2003, and it was in fact implemented in 2006. It's a minor detail.
I think you also indicated that you're aware that Veterans Affairs is trying to move forward on this health care review. Our committee is supposed to be dealing with the health care review as well. We have run into a few little snags. We were sidetracked by the PTSD issue. It is a very important issue, but we haven't yet started the health care review. Hopefully that's going to happen very quickly and this committee will have an opportunity for some serious input into which way we're going.
What do you think the committee should actually concentrate on when we eventually get to this health care review? That's the first question.
The other thing I'd like to say is that I like your approach very much. You say that in order to know where a vet is going, you need to know where he came from. That makes tremendous sense to me. I think the approach you're taking is admirable.
On the second question, do you have any idea, having done some research, what the cost would be to once again expand the VIP? As you said, we did this once as a government already when we included the widows from 1981.