Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Senator, good to see you again. I wish we had a lot more time because there are obviously a lot of topics to continue.
I appreciate not only your years of service but also the years of activity in terms of bringing about some of these changes in the last few years and the fact they are continuing. Although there is a lot of work to be done, I think that's important.
What I would like to do is go right to the symposium that we were both at. What strikes me, in the time I'm spending around Veterans Affairs and veterans, is, one, the stigma question that of course stays there; it's a bit of the culture. The other is this growing recognition that as a society we recognize a physically wounded soldier but we don't tend to want to recognize somebody who has a mental problem or a psychological disability, and so on. That's why I was enthused by the conference in the sense that the civilian and the veterans side, if you like, were coming together and recognizing that we collectively have a great responsibility to educate the public, inform the public, and so on.
I was wondering if you would care to comment further on that approach or that partnership.