Thank you very much.
I'd say that I have had an okay experience with VAC. That's not to say that I've had an okay experience with being in the military and with my subsequent release.
With any issue that I encountered when I made the application to VAC, I always went through the Legion headquarters in Ottawa, so I always had an advocate. It seems to me that if you have an advocate, VAC seems to take your situation a little more seriously. There are other veterans I know of, indigenous and non-indigenous, who have tried to do things themselves and have come up against certain obstacles.
Just to let you know, the downside of my experience was in connection with my son, an indigenous man. We reached out to Veterans Affairs for help with his mental health issues at the time, and I had absolutely zero help there, which was very unfortunate. VAC knows his story. That's for sure.
When it came time for me to get some support myself—