Thank you for coming, Minister, and again let me join the long line of people congratulating you on your post.
My background is medicine and particularly emergency medicine. Much of what I see is injury, both physical injury and mental and psychiatric injury. One of the things that we've noticed over time, and we do a lot of research into in my field, is prevention. This kind of blurs the lines between your two hats, between your Veterans Affairs work and your Defence work. many veterans present with injuries, and I don't mean the catastrophic injuries that you might get as an unfortunate consequence of combat, but repetitive strain injuries, hearing loss due to to constant exposure to loud noise, repetitive strain orthopaedic injuries in paratroopers or infantry personnel, and these sorts of things.
There may be an opportunity in evaluating the injuries that veterans have to apply this to prevention in active service. Is any thought being given to using the data you get in your veterans' injuries and applying this to injury prevention techniques in active service?