It was a good thing. The VIP is sort of like a flagship program. It is a wonderful program. It's really a model program, I would say, a service program that Veterans Affairs Canada organizes.
It used to be, of course, that if the veteran and his or her spouse were receiving those benefits and the veteran died, they would continue for one year. Now they continue for the life of the spouse, except that there's this restrictive provision.
You can have the situation where someone has spent their whole life taking care of, let's say, a husband who had a war-related injury. Still, now, some of these people are not eligible for the continuation of the services because of this artificial timeline. That's the easy one, I think, to work on, as far as I'm concerned.
We really think it's important to place the veterans in a family context. Even if you think of operational stress injuries and PTSD kinds of things, there are clearly effects on families. When veterans have PTSD there's an increased risk of spousal abuse and things like that, and of course the increased burden of caregiving on the spouse.
So we really think that the unit of analysis should be the family, not just the individual veteran.