Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Chaput and Ms. Stewart.
I think, like many Canadians, that people are starting to recognize the shift within Veterans Affairs, and I admire the department's moves in regard to making sure that we care for what I might call our traditional veterans. When people think of their local cenotaph, they think of World War II or Korean War vets. I had the honour of participating in a Remembrance Day ceremony years ago with Bowmanville's last World War I veteran, Fred West. They're recognizing there's a new generation of veterans, the new veterans.
I note in the estimates that disability awards and other benefits have seen an increase of 72%, so we're starting to see disability related to Afghanistan, but I have a more general question. If we wanted to categorize new veterans as 50 years of age and under—or maybe the department does it in a certain way—I'm wondering how much of an increase for overall services of Veterans Affairs Canada are these new veterans.... How much is that increasing each year, on all services? Are you studying a rate of uptake of services among that new cohort of veterans?