Good morning, and welcome.
My name is Rob Oliphant, and I am the vice-chair sitting in for David Sweet, who is the chair, until he arrives, which should be shortly.
I am now calling to order the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs, meeting number 35.
We welcome our witnesses this morning. Thank you for coming to this committee.
We are undertaking a study on the new Veterans Charter. The study has been going on for a few weeks and we've been hearing witnesses. This is a continuation of that process.
We have three sets of witnesses today. I don't know whether you've spoken among yourselves about going in a particular order. If you haven't, I would suggest that we hear from the ANAF vet group first, then from the Canadian Association of Veterans in United Nations Peacekeeping, and then from the occupational therapists group. It will sometimes be a little bit awkward, in that you all won't be coming at the review of the Veterans Charter in the same way, but we have a standard practice here of hearing from all the witnesses first, about ten minutes from each group, and then we turn it over to the members of the committee to do questioning. We'll take that questioning for the next hour or so after that.
I'll call upon Mr. McCartney first.