Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to pick up right where you left off, Mr. Thorne.
I don't know if you were there at the time, but back when committees used to travel, I was a member of the veterans committee and had the honour of visiting your establishment in Vancouver along with the full committee. It was a memorable visit. It's apparent that your organization has come a long way since then. For that, I congratulate you.
I'm going to start with this: There was a study done in 2019, called the “Life After Service Survey”. It showed that the largest post-release employer for veterans, by far, was the public service.
What does that tell you? What conclusion would you draw from the facts that, one, veterans after service are drawn to the public service and, two, they are successful in landing jobs within the public service, in large numbers?