Thank you, Mr. Chair, and through you, I would say—and we had great witnesses today as well, but some of this stuff bears repeating—there's a lot of understanding around this table. Starting with my grandfather, who fought in the battle against Bolsheviks in 1920, and my father—who's still alive at 95—throughout the Second World War from the first date till the last, as well as my mom who had some horrific experiences at the hands of the Nazis, I've lived this my whole life with veterans who returned and were told to suck it up, get on with life, and move on. This is something that from a very early age I was very familiar with in terms of how they dealt with things, and sometimes it wasn't done well.
As the ombudsman and as other witnesses said today, there is still a gap that needs to be closed. I'll tell you this committee will always have work for a long time to come. This will never be ended. As wars change, as we saw in 1917, as we saw in World War II, as we saw in Korea, and as we saw in other places, things evolve from conflict to conflict. At one time PTSD was shell shock and combat fatigue, and then finally diagnosed as PTSD. Now we're working with great organizations, like CIMVHR and DRDC, who work to discover what the markers are for PTSD, try to get ahead of that curve, and work on those things. As some of these very learned and very well educated scientists and academics—