Perfect. Thanks for answering that question.
I would appreciate, though, following up on that, if you could let us know. Surely the department must have the number of people who are rejected on a yearly basis, and maybe even over the last five years would be interesting.
My question is following on the back of that, and I've asked this several times. We talk about the paperwork, and we just talked about how many members are rejected, and you don't have those numbers. The problem I have with it is when you're a serving member of the Canadian armed forces and you jump off the back of a one-tonne truck or you jump off the back of a tank or you're loading an F-18 and you hurt yourself, you don't stop, fill out your paperwork, and then proceed back with your job. You just continue on, you fight through it, and you get through the day.
At the end of the day, there seems to be a real lapse here when you start comparing guys who are then two or three years later or five or ten years later applying for disability or applying because they have these problems. And I've seen on my own dozens of cases where Veterans Affairs turns around and says they don't have the proper paperwork, so they're denied, and then they've got to go through the whole appeals process, which takes six to eight months.
What are we doing to better prepare guys for this and let them know that they have to make sure that they fill out the paperwork, at least at the end of the day? What's the awareness of this? Is Veterans Affairs looking at this? My personal opinion on it is that we should just be approving the guys, and the 3% or 4% who are maybe trying to abuse it, catch them after. At the end of the day, the way these guys are trained--as you would know, Mr. Lemieux--is not to just stop, turn around, and fill out the proper paperwork.