Thanks, Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for making themselves available today and for sharing their expertise and knowledge. It's very much appreciated.
I'm not sure whether you were able to listen in on the first half of our meeting today, where we heard the wonderful testimony from General Holt and Corporal Lohnes from Audeamus. It was fascinating and enlightening. I find some connection and overlap with the testimony from professors Dell and Chalmers, and I want to dwell there for a moment.
The picture that is becoming clear to me is that there's a great complexity here. We are needing to train the trainers who train the dog. We're needing to train the dog, and then we're needing to train the veteran and the dog together so that they pair successfully. I think there were prescriber standards. There is a lot around this.
I'll go back to one thing that Corporal Lohnes talked about. He opened his remarks by talking about this fundamental question: Are you present and are you safe? I regret I wasn't able to ask him to unpack that a little bit, but I wonder if, at a foundational level, you can talk about that question and how the dog's presence in that question affects the answer.
I'll ask that to either Professor Dell or Professor Chalmers.