I appreciate what you're saying, especially in regard to COVID as well. However, I've been on this committee since 2015, and we've done a great deal of work to study the transition and make recommendations. One recommendation that the government and National Defence certainly agreed with was that more information needed to be provided to serving members in regard to potential services when they left the forces.
Of course, when you join, you don't see that as being in your future any time soon, and you have plans for a career. However, there needed to be more communication throughout your time serving so that you would have opportunity, when you left, to have a sense of knowing how you could proceed. What I'm hearing from you is that none of that was the case.
As you are a Black veteran—please, if you're comfortable with this—feel free to share what that dynamic was like for you, serving in the armed forces as a Black service member. Is there anything you would like to recommend that we could do, even today, that would make things more fair for those who are from a different background, ethnic background or whatever, to be well cared for, recognized and valued in your service?