Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for appearing this morning. I want to seize upon something Mr. Stoffer raised in his questions. In it is the challenge Veterans Affairs faces in addressing the service needs of modern veterans alongside our traditional veterans. I have two questions in relation to that.
First, I believe it was at estimates when the deputy minister appeared, she mentioned that increasingly VIP benefits were being accessed by friends or family members of older veterans. Some of the changes in terms of predictable payment ahead of time for those programs were the result of that. Do you have any data on how many of the older veterans actually have friends or family who help them access benefits?