Certainly. Thank you for the question.
I've been here for four and a half years. The committee has been around much longer than that. My view is that in the embryonic stages of the committee, they were very much finding their way, as I mentioned in my remarks, trying to make sure that there was greater collaboration and communication between the two departments. It may be surprising, but when you go back and read the history of the committee, the two departments were not always as closely linked as they are today.
As time has gone on, the two organizations have become much better at understanding each other and the respective cultures of each organization. They have better understood the needs of veterans. The terms of reference of the committee have changed to reflect that better understanding.
Even in the four and a half years I've been sitting on the committee, there has been a real shift as the Department of Veterans Affairs has come to, I would submit, better appreciate the needs of the modern-day veteran. Some don't like that term, but we now have a much more computer-literate, social media-literate organization. Veterans Affairs has taken great steps to address that. The terms of reference for the committee have been in line as we have tried to make sure that we've stayed abreast of the changing demographics and the needs of veterans.