Thank you very much for coming today.
Mr. Lalonde, it's nice to see you again.
I look at the deck--beautifully done. It's full of information that's valuable and all of that, and the health and wellness framework.... If you listen to the folks I have heard for the last two or three years coming before our committee and when we visit, everything should be just fine, because there's so much work being done, so much outreach being done. Clinics are set up here, there, and everywhere.
We shouldn't have all these other issues that we're hearing so much about in these last six or eight months if we were to believe everything that's in here and everything that we've seen and heard. The best intentions in the world, I have no doubt about that...but there are lots of issues out there that none of this is covering.
The fact is we have veterans who are having to go to food banks in western Canada, who are in a homeless shelter in downtown Toronto. There are all these other issues where people are coming forward and saying they couldn't get heard, they couldn't get help, whatever the case may be.
In spite of all of this, there are some serious issues out there. We're missing the boat somewhere.