Veterans Affairs committee  My understanding as it is now of the education and training benefit is that it wouldn't overlap with our program. Certainly, if that was a possibility, that would be fantastic. My understanding is that this is really for post-secondary education, trade training, something along those lines.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that's something that we'd be very interested in looking at.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that perhaps you may be confusing Veterans Transition Network with another transition-based organization, perhaps Transition to Communities.

Veterans Affairs committee  We offer one program, the veterans transition program. Within that, we have a variety of different focal points, but we don't have distinct programs. They're all contained within one program.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. When the organization was incorporated and we wrote our five-year strategic plan, which we just came to the end of last year and we're now entering our next strategic plan, one of the main missions was that the organization would always draw funding from Canadians, from corporations, from the charitable sector, essentially because a part of our mission statement was that it is not just the government's responsibility, but also Canada's responsibility to care for these individuals because they have served us.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for that question, because that's something I was going to try to state myself, but you have really just laid it out for me. You're exactly right. This is something that we're really trying to do as an organization, find veterans and even service members who are in the process of release and connect with them earlier.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  Great, thank you very much.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the introduction. Let's hope that clear picture holds. I'll begin briefly by introducing myself and the work the Veterans Transition Network does, which I think will help contextualize the questions I can address and the input I can provide. Thank you very much for the invitation to provide testimony today.