Welcome back, Minister and Deputy Minister.
I'm assuming we're over our jet lag from Korea. I was honoured to be on that trip with you and Mr. Johns and Mr. McColeman. It was a great experience.
On the study of various transitions, we identified something that, although it is a policy in the Canadian Armed Forces, has a direct effect on veterans. You being, of course, the associate minister of defence, I thought this was germane.
We talked about the concept of universality of service and how that seemed to be having a great deal of negative effect on a lot of veterans who might have been able to serve in some capacity, if not a 100% deployable capacity. Our recommendation in our report on transition was that the CAF apply a measure of flexibility to the concept of universality of service for selected members.
From the defence department we received a reply that they were going to review this and compare jurisdictions that have something like it, like the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Have you been able to take any steps on it so far? Have you been able to review this or have any updates from your point of view on this?