Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll also add my own thanks to both of you for being here and sharing your story. Hopefully, in having a chance to talk to us, it will be in some little way helpful. You're certainly being helpful to us in our deliberations.
Based on your testimony today, I will be asking my colleagues that when we do have the new ombudsman here, maybe as the invitation goes to the new ombudsman, we refer him to the testimony of today's meeting as an example of some of the things he will see as he begins his new mandate.
It may not be possible for him to comment on this testimony at his first visit to our committee. But I think at some point in time, maybe a second visit in the new year, once his office is set up, he could take this as a case study, as a real live study, and put his microscope on this case, which stretches over nine years, which stretches over an evolution. I'm sure the department has been trying to improve its processes. Let's just give them that benefit. He'll have a good example here of how things can wrong, so that the other families that you're dealing with and families across the country don't face this again.
Perhaps within your power, Mr. Chair, you could simply, when inviting him, refer him to this testimony. But if it needs a motion later on, I'd be pleased to put a motion to that effect.
As well, Ms. Migneault, would you give the ombudsman or his office permission to call you?