Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for being here. General, it's always a delight to see you, sir.
Just to follow up on something that call sign "Hawnski" said earlier in terms of this being a living document—and it is—as we've seen between the wars over the last century, but also in just the last 30 years, a lot has changed. As the general will remember, back in the seventies and even eighties, if you had a Cyprus Medal, a CD, and a set of wings, you were fully decorated.
Nowadays, to look at the soldiers, with the number of missions that they have, so much has changed just in three decades alone. This is something we definitely need to bear in mind. That's why this is so much a living document. We have to address the concerns of our veterans as they go along. Things do change and you need that flexibility to be able to adapt to it, so, Minister, I congratulate you on implementing and instilling that flexibility into the plan.
Minister, as you talked about benefits and awards, you also used the word “pension”. I'd like you to equate those words together and define what all of this adds up to in the end for a veteran on a program of benefits and awards.