Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here today.
Just a point of information for colleagues, who are probably aware that our committee meeting, as are all committee meetings, is broadcast on the web. After that meeting, I had a call from a brother of one of the nine soldiers who died on August 9, 1974, and he was appreciative of the work of the committee that day. So in cyberspace we are being heard.
On the notion of the overall review, ad hoc changes versus comprehensive changes, I think we appreciate that there's a time and a place for both. Ad hoc changes will sometimes provide for the patch that's needed to deal with an immediate concern, but every so often you have to step back and look at a comprehensive review. We appreciate the work of the department in that regard, and I hope what we do will be helpful. But it is a concern that, based on the five-year figure used for the charter, we might be facing more or less five years for this.
When did the clocks start on the department's review?