I call the meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 54 of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs.
We are continuing our study on the experience of women veterans, and we have three witnesses with us today from the Department of National Defence.
We have with us Major-General Marc Bilodeau, surgeon general, Canadian Armed Forces; Commodore Daniel Bouchard, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces transition group; Lieutenant-General Lise Bourgon, acting chief of military personnel; and Lieutenant-Colonel Andrea Tuka, national practice leader, psychiatry, who is with us by video conference.
We will have opening remarks.
Lieutenant-General Bourgon, I think you're giving the opening remarks on behalf of the group this evening, so we'll give you roughly five minutes for opening remarks.
If you want to turn on your microphone, you can give those remarks now, and then we'll go into questioning from the members.