Thank you very much, Minister.
The reason you were invited to come to the committee today was to talk about the contract, so how about we do that?
I'd like to refer you specifically to some of the testimony that we heard from the president of the Union of Veterans' Affairs Employees and invite you to respond. Virginia Vaillancourt, when she testified before committee, said that case managers fear that, through the new rehab contract, veterans will lose their human face-to-face contact with someone who will be an ally, an advocate and quite often a trusted friend to their families during some pretty dark times.
Minister, how would you respond to that fear as expressed by the union president of case managers?