I may be accused of being disrespectful, but the answer is yes.
I'm sorry; my sense of humour has been my downfall.
You're absolutely right. The dog and the veteran become a team. We identify them as service dog teams. From the times I've been on deployment, I know that your team modifies your own behaviour, and you modify the team's behaviour.
It's hard to describe. If you saw.... That's the advantage of seeing what happens to some of these veterans who have difficulty getting out their front doors. Once we go through the training, they're shopping at Walmart. Mind you, they can't do that now, but they can get out and do things. They're out in public. They have confidence. It's marvellous. They're back to being the people I recognized when they worked for me.
You're right. It's a combination of the two, and yes, there's the frustration of not having national standards. We're going through the province, because the national standard thing didn't quite work.
I was so thrilled when I saw what you're working on in this committee, because you're exactly in the right space. This is what needs to be done, so congratulations to the committee for tackling this.
Hopefully, it's not going to be Don Quixote-ish. I hope there's not a big windmill that's going to hit you, but this is so important. It is a national problem—no, a national challenge. It's a challenge. We don't have problems; we have challenges.