Thank you.
We really need to solve this problem for our veterans. Basically, I think our issue is that there wasn't consensus on that board and in the group who were working on it, so they discontinued. What were the circumstances that brought us to that point? That's the whole purpose of this standards board. They deal with all kinds of complicated issues. What was it?
Quite honestly, from my understanding, there were conflicts of interest there because of the roads that a number of those organizations had already gone down. As you said, they could not come to an agreement around the fact that there's a huge difference between an obedience dog and a service dog.
I really think it is important that we find the people with the credibility and the research—and we have them in Canada—to take another crack at this and do what needs to be done. People who do not have money in the game or have not received funding directly from the government to fund service dogs can bring about the standards that we know we can have in Canada for them.
I would encourage you to look at that. We'll certainly be looking at that as a committee. A lack of consensus there was not because of the complexity of the issue; it was because of conflicts of interest, I believe, within that group. That's so key when you're trying to set standards. You need to move out and have people who are not part of that dynamic so extensively that they can't look at it objectively.
I don't know if that's something you would say was part of that dynamic or not, or whether you're prepared to go there.