Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thanks again, Mr. Peate, not only for your service to our country but also to your fellow veterans.
One of our concerns, sir, of course, is that being a veterans committee, we interlope a lot on defence issues when it comes to soldiers returning to their families and on some issues facing veterans and their spouses, issues that really are under the auspices of DND. For example, there's the marriage after 60 clause, which you're aware of. We've spoken about it before. It's actually a DND technicality. The amount of money a veteran leaves his spouse when he passes on is 50%. Many groups have been asking for that to be increased a bit, because a lot of the time their wives will be pushed into—or, at least, in some cases—pretty dire poverty. So those are some of the hurdles we need to look at.
In your experience—because you were in the reserves as well, if I'm not mistaken—of going from DND to DVA for your hearing aids, and everything else, how did you find that transfer? Were there delays in some of your processes, or was it fairly smooth, in your opinion, when you transferred?