Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I'm just going to couch my questions in a little bit of a comment first.
We are studying the transition to civilian life. I'm in my ninth year now on this team. We've studied transition a lot, and in that time, some decisions and recommendations were made, specifically with regard to this seamless, smooth transition.
First of all, it was very strong from our veterans that they did not agree with just simply being released before a few things are in place. As a result, it was recommended that they not be released from the CAF financially until certain things happened: health care, first of all; a home; and some form of employment.
What I'm hearing from you, Ms. Perron, is that we have veterans still being released without a medical card. Of course, it should come immediately. They aren't moving from a province and having to wait for three months. This is unacceptable. The whole idea of not having an address and not having a doctor, at least an online doctor.... With this new study we're doing, we're no longer looking at what we decided before. We now have these three transition pilots that have taken place. There are now 27 transition centres, I believe, set up across Canada.
What is your perspective? Please give a yes or no. Should these things be in place before someone moves from the CAF to being a veteran? Should that person be a veteran on the street or a veteran with these things in place? It's just the basics.