Thank you so much, Chair.
Through the chair, I would like to start first with Senator Busson.
Thank you so much for being here. I want to thank you for reminding us that we need to remember the RCMP veterans. I really appreciate that. It's good to be held to account. I will say that indirectly I was talking about them when I talked about the gold digger clause, but I didn't mention that directly. I think it's really important feedback, so I appreciate that. I also want to thank you for mentioning the gold digger clause. Everybody knows it's a passion of mine. We continue to do work on that.
I would just like to acknowledge the ongoing work by the RCMP women veterans council. I think the work there is really powerful. Of course, it's chaired by Jane Hall from B.C.
I also want to acknowledge that it was RCMP women who had their “me too” moment before the CAF. They did a lot of tremendous work around the CAF-DND sexual misconduct class action. We learned a lot from that. I want to recognize the hard work those women did. It's never easy to stand up and say the thing that is hard.
One thing that I find troubling about this complete study, and that I have no remedy for, is that we have to ask veterans to come and bleed in front of us so that we can put something on paper to try to prove that this is the reality. That does make me struggle a lot.
I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on the RCMP double-dipping pension clawback, and if you feel that has been handled. Is that something you could talk to the committee about a bit?