And I was practising my French.
I am sorry, Mr. Desilets, I would really like to answer in French, but I do not have the vocabulary I need to do so.
To begin with, your question regarding male and female, I believe that question is for Mr. Soulière. He was discussing men and women. I believe they are treated equally on active service operations. I'm not familiar with any inconsistencies there with regard to men and women.
With regard to your question on Australia and New Zealand, I'm very happy to explain that. First I'd like to mention that November 11 is Remembrance Day, and it's for remembering our dead. Unfortunately, what happens is on November 11 we tend to make it somewhat about veterans as well. This more or less takes away from what November 11 is really about, Remembrance Day.
My suggestion is that we could probably look to our partners in New Zealand and Australia. Annually they have a veterans day. Of course, they have Remembrance Day on November 11, but they recently had Anzac Day. Anzac Day saw veterans from across the countries come together to commemorate their veterans' service at a dawn parade in major cities throughout Australia and New Zealand. Everybody goes to this event. It's a camaraderie event. Everybody comes together. They march together. Then, of course, civilians who recognize what's happening also come out to witness the parade.
To some of the comments earlier about how Canadians are responding, Dr. Harris, Canadians really love their veterans and they want to hear more about the things we're doing. The challenge is we don't always have the mechanism or the means to communicate effectively with Canadians.
These events, like an event of camaraderie or a commemorative event like Anzac Day, would probably work very well in Canada, because we have similar cultures. Also, I mentioned that if you're going to get me to respond to a commemorative event and come out to represent veterans, it's going to definitely have to be something where some camaraderie is involved, where I get to see other veterans.
Thank you, sir.