Thank you.
Good morning, Dr. Pringle. I'm sure my chairman wasn't talking about me, because I'm known not to be long-winded. Thank you. You had very good opening remarks.
Actually, I'm going to go to my last point first, because you just touched on it. One of the struggles for members of Parliament has been, as you mentioned—and I was probably the guy who recommended it—to have a list of the veterans in our ridings.
I would ask you to consider something, and it was mentioned at a previous meeting, but I'll bring it up here. I was wondering if your group would make a recommendation that we could be provided a list in our ridings. We know the privacy laws. We deal with them every day, but we have access to all kinds of information. You just brought up a figure that I've been curious about for a while: that 60% of veterans are not connected to any organizations, or that we're not touching base with them.
A recommendation from your group that members of Parliament could be provided with this list.... We only have the best interests of these veterans at heart, and we want to be a point of first contact in many instances. We travel our ridings extensively. We would be the perfect people, but because of the rules that are in place right now, we can't do it. A recommendation from your group to start building that list and providing it for members of Parliament would go a long way.