Good morning.
Thank you very much for the question.
Transition interviews have been administered by Veterans Affairs Canada for a number of years now. It's in excess of two years, actually—I think they started back in the early 2000s—but we have invested more aggressively in the transition services and the administration of the transition interview over the last two years, in concert, of course, with our Canadian Armed Forces colleagues.
What the transition interview does is, hopefully, in the pre-release phase of a member's release from the military, enable a Veterans Affairs agent to evaluate, as my colleague mentioned in her opening remarks, any potential risks or barriers to re-establishment and then to counsel the releasing member and family—we encourage families to participate in the transition interview in order to get a full picture of the circumstance—in terms of benefits that our department may be able to provide, as well as community services—