Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to yet another meeting of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs.
Today we're continuing to study the veterans health care review and the veterans independence program. Our witnesses this morning are Willie Lirette, president of the Fédération des aînées et aînés francophones du Canada, as well as Marc Ryan, who is the first vice-president, Ontario. Then from the International Federation on Ageing, we have Greg Shaw, who is the director, international and corporate relations.
The way it works generally, gentlemen, is that you have usually 20 minutes in entirety. However, I understand it's been set up so that there are 10 minutes each. So committee members will have a full 30 minutes of testimony this morning, if you so chose. And then after that, we have a pre-arranged roster of question asking between the various parties, and I will adjudicate that.
And the big question of course, gentlemen, is that I think we're generally all in favour of extension of the veterans independence program, but it's a question of how much.
So the floor is yours.