Okay.
Thank you for coming today.
I'd like to refer to page 2 of your comments. You say, halfway down the page, “...it is important that the office be powerful, independent and impartial”. You go on in the next paragraph to explain that the ombudsman position created for DND and CF did not, at the start, have that ability. It appears from your statements a little later on that this was corrected through a major effort and that it didn't take too long. So it's working for the armed forces right now. You need an independent set-up for the veterans, and you go down farther to talk about how this is being set up.
My first question, a brief question, is this. An assistant deputy minister of Veterans Affairs has been appointed to set this process up, and you take issue with that. Can you tell me when that person was appointed and how it came about? Is it very recent? We know the election was on January 23. We know there have been five months since. Can you tell me when it happened?