Thank you, Minister, for joining us today, and thanks to the team as well for being here.
If I may speak for the committee for a brief moment, I'd like to to pass on congratulations to your retiring Assistant Deputy Minister Doiron for a great career of public service. Thank you for that.
I wanted to ask about the veteran identification card. This is a program that was deleted under the previous Conservative government. As a result of some good intentions on the part of the team at Veterans Affairs, and a petition originating from two veterans in Halifax, Gus Cameron and Ben Broome, they helped to reinstate the veteran ID card.
Could you provide a bit of an update on the rollout of the card, any details around uptake and the reaction from veterans' communities to the return of this really important piece of ID that veterans carry with them?