Thank you very much, Mr. Caputo.
I think a basic level of awareness about what LGBTQ people have experienced in the military is vital to being welcomed into a community where you're now called a veteran, but who have reservations about whether they will continue to be judged and marginalized and discriminated against.
If a case manager has training from which they understand what something like the LGBT purge was all about, what they may have experienced, or other kinds of discrimination and, frankly, oppression that was literally on the books of the Canadian government, that goes a long way to acknowledging the history of what someone's been through. A case manager who has been trauma informed as that person has approached, and understanding their story from an informed position, is really helpful.
I believe it to be part of the process that's under way already. However, I also hear many stories. People contact their case manager, and if the case manager happens to be new and doesn't know about the LGBT purge, they may not believe that it could happen in Canada. People have this notion that a history like the LGBT purge couldn't even happen in a place like Canada. There are basic levels of training needed so that it's not the victim, and it's not the person who's traumatized—