It looks like I just needed to give you a few more seconds of patience. My apologies. It's sometimes hard to know when someone's arriving to a conclusion.
I appreciate your remarks. We, as a committee, certainly appreciate them.
Thank you to both of you for your service to our country during your time in the forces and for continuing to serve your fellow veterans in Veterans Affairs. It's great to see two members of Veterans Affairs who are veterans themselves here with us tonight. It's something we hope to see even more of in the future. Thank you for being here with us.
We'll now turn to our questioning rounds.
With our first round of questions, there are six minutes allotted to each of the four recognized political parties in the House of Commons.
The first round goes to the Conservative Party. Mr. Fraser Tolmie will have the next six minutes for questions.