I don't know that I would call anything a misperception if somebody is feeling a particular way around the supports they're getting. That's a valid point.
Clearly, in the past, we had some difficulty in making sure we could make decisions and make advances equally on issues of importance to men and women veterans, because we saw male veterans coming forward to us in large numbers, but not so much in the case of women veterans. It's taken some time for us to do that.
Trudie and Melanie are amongst the people in the department who are working very diligently to make sure all issues with respect to women veterans are being addressed with importance. We've taken this seriously from a gender-based analysis approach. We look to review programs and make sure there's no discrepancy and no difficulty in terms of the eligibility for a woman veteran who might be coming forward.
I would just say, “Please, do come forward. Come and see us. Come and talk to us. Even if you feel as though, for some reason, a friend or a colleague has not been able to get the support he or she was looking for, please do come forward and see us.”
We are continuing to improve our processes. We want veterans to come forward and get the help they may need and that we can offer. We want people to come forward.
The biggest ask and what we continue to do is certainly try to encourage people to come forward to make that process as easy as possible.