Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and I want to thank our guests today for their testimony. It's certainly bee emotional and touching to hear from each of you. Lots of the things that have been brought forward were consistently brought forward when we did our study of the transition of women from the military and just transition in general. I think this speaks to the earlier comments of my neighbour here, Cathay, about our lots of reports and not a whole lot of action in response to those reports. I think there's even another one coming forward for service dogs as well.
I hear the frustration when you say there are these outlets where you get to go and have meetings at any of the headquarters, whatever.... I have Base Borden in mine, and lots of veterans often wonder why they have to drive to Toronto, because most of the military, when they're done, can't afford a house in Toronto and to live there. It's certainly been raised many times with me in my riding.
We're really studying the Persian Gulf. I hope we can solve some of these problems, and we're trying to see exactly how that falls into place and why you're not recognized as having wartime service. There really is one individual who can probably do that and recognize it more so than the committee. Have you had meetings with the Minister of Defence to discuss these issues?