Well, welcome to Alberta. We can always use more soldiers.
I appreciate your taking the time. I particularly appreciated some of the stories you shared about some of the veterans you've dealt with. I think they were touching and appropriate, given the issues we're dealing with. So I deeply appreciate that.
At that stage, as committee members, I know we are minutes away from a vote in the House of Commons. I'll just touch on one thing. I usually wrap this up by kind of rolling us into the next series of business. So if committee members wish to say good-bye or shake hands, etc., I'm just going to carry on as chair doing what we do here.
I want to let members know that we still have some more witnesses to appear with regard to this study we're doing. We also have the trips that are coming up, to Petawawa, etc.
Now, we still have some spaces coming up—I think it's Thursday next week—and there are two things that are kind of rattling around as issues. One is that whenever this Parliament wraps up, I think it is of value.... Mr. Stoffer moved the motion in a previous committee meeting some time ago, but I think this idea of separating Veterans Affairs from National Defence has served veterans well. And regarding the idea of decorating the room and designating it as such, the clerk and I were talking about the letter that's going to the Speaker of the House. I think that has value, serving as a precedent for future Parliaments with regard to carrying that type of tradition on.
Anyhow, it's something we may want to consider in that Thursday meeting or some of the ones we have upcoming, after the witnesses are extinguished, with regard to what types of things we want to designate in that regard.
The other thing is this idea of a comparison study with some of the other countries and their veteran services. I know the witness today touched on the United States in terms of some of the services they provide. I know Mr. Perron has touched on that before with regard to post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans, etc., and then there's just some suggestions down here.
Mr. St. Denis.