As mentioned earlier, possibly it would be a merging of the departments, DND and Veterans Affairs. I'm not sure of the history of it, or of why it was set up that way. Probably it was the sheer volume of, at the time, the post-Second World War veterans, or maybe even after the First World War. That would be my guess. But if it were one department, one seamlessly operating under the other....
One of the issues we've had, by the way, in putting these appeals together has been access of information. One department doesn't necessarily allow the other department access to their information either, in this case DND; veterans can't necessarily get access to all the information—in a timely fashion, anyway.
I just want to mention one thing that came to mind, just on the topic of that. I'm sure everyone saw on the news yesterday what happened in the United States at Fort Hood. I don't think it will be a surprise when it probably will come out that it was a soldier who had been acting out under duress and PTSD.
Those are the types of situations that hopefully we don't start to see here. But if the numbers and the volumes, and now that we're out of that conflict zone.... I just wanted to acknowledge that unfortunate incident and bring it to light and top of mind that these are the types of things that could happen.