Thank you to both of you for your testimony today.
I wanted to particularly thank you, Ms. Hayward. I know how incredibly difficult it must be to share that sort of testimony and your experiences. You've now done that on a couple of occasions with this committee. I certainly share your desire to see the report you mentioned tabled as soon as possible, because it is incredibly important that we honour the courage people such as you have shown in sharing testimony with us.
Ms. Aristocrat, in your opening remarks, you talked a lot about what you've been seeing more and more among our veterans over the last several years: the struggles they're facing with the cost of living crisis we're seeing in this country, the homelessness, the addictions and the many other challenges faced by our veterans. I wonder if you could talk a bit more to some of those effects you've seen on our veterans. Also, do you have any specific examples of what some of the veterans you've worked with through your work are struggling with in terms of the cost of living crisis, homelessness and so on?
