Thank you.
Thank you so much for being here today, for your service, and for the fact that really you're the people who have the best answers. I don't know why, but often it's the human condition that says we can find answers outside of the people who really live the experience and want to see it improved. That's what I'm hearing here today.
Many of the things, Barry, that you're saying, we've discussed. I think this committee wants to see some real, significant changes. From hearing what the ombudsman has said, hearing discussions here, and hearing witnesses, this has been going on, as you say, for far too long and it needs significant improvements.
Part of the issue is very much what you're talking about with the culture of our armed forces. I'm beginning to understand what it takes to create soldiers who are ready to go out and do what you do and have done. But with that responsibility, we've said around this table, the same level of commitment should be there to say thank you and that we now want to be significant partners in helping you leave and become successful in other ways.
Is there a sense amongst veterans who would be leaving the armed forces that the public service is a structure in which they would very much want to be employed, and what would be the reasons for that?