Yes, I'll be quick.
Frankly it's not a new bill. I have a friend who served on UN missions, had a heart attack in Central America, came back, was released from the military, and was immediately hired in the public service through the priority hiring. The issue on priority hiring is people meeting the qualifications, and it's always been that issue. Not all releasing members of the Canadian Forces meet the qualifications to come into the public service, so they languish on the waiting list. There's also that the public service is reducing as well. Although the military has now been pushed to the top of that list, there's still a whole bunch of people.
As well, if you look, RCMP members are second class. They're in tier two, not tier one. So we're concerned about the RCMP not being included in tier one as well. So will they get the jobs, are the jobs there, is the public service going to continue to decline—there are a lot of people on that waiting list—and do the people have the right qualifications?
These young people coming out of the Canadian Forces today have life experiences that we can't imagine. They have technical training that we've never had before. They're smart people. They deserve to be employed somewhere, whether it's in the government or somewhere else. They deserve to have a chance to be employed and be moving forward. They're very smart young people.