Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I hope you can be gracious in response to what I'm going to ask, because it goes with what I've experienced in life.
When we talk about the very diverse national backgrounds of Black people, which is true, that is also true of white people, as an example. My dad grew up without his dad. He dissed the Irish all his life, as all good Scots do, until he realized later in life that he's actually Irish, and a lot of things didn't make sense anymore.
My children grew up in the early eighties in Edmonton-Mill Woods, where there are 84 different groups of people. My husband and I used to enjoy watching them, because they didn't have a clue that they were white among a sea of people from all different nations.
This racism that you're experiencing is real, and it's experienced everywhere. I would love to know how we get to the root of it, because institutions don't come out of nowhere. They come from people creating them. Where does humanity and how we grow up and learn...? That appreciation has to start, I think, at a very young age.
It seems that today we are seeing more dissent and disagreement in society than we have in a long time, yet we want to see things improved, especially in this circumstance in the armed forces. How do you process that?