Thank you for your question. I'm happy to see you again as well.
In the department, the priorities for supporting veterans and their families constitute a significant investment. This investment may involve the workforce or the creation of new programs and services to assist the veteran community and the organizations that provide support to veterans.
I'll give you two examples. First, we're experiencing delays when it comes to providing decisions to veterans. Clearly, we want to reduce their wait times. We could use additional workers or human resources to help us do that. I can tell you that, since the summer, we've hired an additional 350 people for this purpose.
Second, we spoke about the veterans emergency fund. We realized that we lacked a program that could help veterans in crisis who needed immediate financial assistance. We created the veterans emergency fund, which enables us to provide immediate assistance to veterans in need.