Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses. I appreciate the work that you and the rest of the department are doing.
We did have positive news in the most recent budget. I wonder if you could elaborate on those changes, specifically in the veterans independence program.
I represent the riding of Kelowna—Lake Country in the Okanagan Valley, which has a lot of seniors and veterans, specifically widows. I wonder how they could now qualify for the VIP program due to this expansion in the budget of 2008.