Thank you, Mr. Samson, for your kind words and your question.
Certainly as military families, the movement, the postings we undergo every two to three years over a long career, mean uprooting our families to go all across the country, sometimes overseas, which breaks the bonds that children and families create in their societies and their communities. It's fairly abrupt.
There are long absences of the military member. We go on training. We go on courses. Pre-deployment training is particularly of long duration. Then when we deploy—and deployment itself is obviously for a long period of time—the risk of illness, injury or death while we're deployed has a significant impact on the well-being of the family who has been left behind.
Excuse me. I've only been retired for two years and all of this is still very fresh for me, and I apologize for my emotion here. It does mean a lot to me.
Perhaps I could ask my colleague, Mr. Schippers, who oversaw the completion of the report, to add a little bit more.