Thank you for that. I certainly hope to see some focus on women-only centres. We know and have heard repeatedly that this seems to be a significant gap in the services.
The other factor we've heard about repeatedly from women veterans is that they feel invisible, and it's particularly around health concerns not being properly recorded while they were serving in the CAF. Often, these women were silenced. They were bullied to not speak up. They were ignored. We've heard of women who were raped and there was no rape kit offered. Often, women were just standing the line because they fought so hard to get there that they didn't want to see their service diminished in that way.
I'm just wondering: How will the minister address this reality in terms of the work at VAC? Women often do not have the appropriate documentation to support the significant physical and mental health needs they have because of the lack of records from CAF. Is there any discussion happening at a ministerial level to, number one, start addressing this more and, number two, offer an official apology to the women who serve so that it can be recognized by the public of Canada?