Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you again for coming, especially all the veterans in the room, and thank you as well. Thank you for your service to our country; it's much appreciated.
It was mentioned earlier by my colleague across the way that we do care about our veterans' health. Regardless of what the cause is, we still care that they're unhealthy. The purpose of this study is to affirm that this may not be the reason for their lack of good health, but nevertheless, we still care about their health.
I want to ask you whether your research was in line with that of other studies worldwide or the U.S. studies. Was it consistent with those? I know in your summary, conclusions 4 and 5 are related to this. Sometimes we ask you to repeat the obvious, but it's not obvious to the people who are going to read this later on in our report. So we would like you just to state whether it was consistent with other studies on DU.