My area—the outreach, consultation, and engagement directorate—was established just a bit more than a year ago. My main mandate is to ensure that we have an integrated, coordinated approach to consultation, engagement, and outreach.
Veterans Affairs Canada, through various individuals and our offices at the local, regional, and national levels, have been carrying out outreach. We've been consulting, and we've been engaging veterans organizations for a long time. We felt that there was a key need to ensure that we were coordinated and integrated. There are a lot of good initiatives and activities that are happening across the country, and we want to benefit from those good success stories. I think two key things would be to make sure that we have a strategic, integrated, and coordinated approach and that we share best practices across the country so that we can all benefit from them.
One of the ones I would share is the community covenant in Conception Bay, which Krista spoke about. That's very successful at helping veterans integrate, and that's a good practice that can be shared and benefited from.