Thanks to you both for your service.
My condolences to you and your family for your loss.
As we travelled across the country this past week, we learned an awful lot more about issues that have come about. Some of what we heard is similar to your story, Veronica. A lot of our first nations, it appears, both in the present and in the past, have crossed to the United States and served in the U.S. A question we've asked ourselves many times is “Why?”
I'm just wondering whether either of you could answer that for us. It would help me, at least, wrestle with understanding why that is.
Veronica, do you want to go first?