Good afternoon, thank you for being here with us today. Like my colleagues, I congratulate you for your good work. All the consultation that you conducted shows the efforts that you are ready to expend to ensure a better quality of life for veterans and to find better solutions to their problems.
I was not a member of the committee when you testified on April 22 last, but I got the notes and read them. And in answer to a question that a colleague asked you about the end of your mandate, you replied as follows: "Mr. Chair, my first mandate will end on next November 11, but I expect that it will be renewed.”
You seemed very confident when you made these statements. I would like to know what made you believe that your contract would be renewed and what happened afterward between that date and the month of August, to cause it not to be renewed.