It's a very good question. Mr. Chair. There's probably a lengthy answer to that short question.
This “Reasons for Decisions” report was the start of a concept to look at the whole spectrum of disability applications, from the time of the initial adjudication to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board reconsideration stage, the last stage.
We are right now working on a report that should be with the minister within a couple of weeks, which has to do with all the Veterans Review and Appeal Board decisions that were sent to the Federal Court and were subsequently returned to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board for review.
We have a contracted firm that looked at all these cases that were sent back to the Federal Court, and we found some common denominators there for the reasons they were sent back to the VRAB for review. We firmly believe that if those things exist at that end of the spectrum, they probably also existed at the front end. So we need to make the link between the two. I can't speak of the details of the report, but it certainly will be public, probably within a couple of months, depending on how long it stays with the minister.
Our intentions then are to actually provide some companion reports to fill the gap between the two, so we'll work on the process itself. At that point in time we'll be able to look at recommendations to Veterans Affairs Canada on how they can increase the efficiency of the process.