I wonder if I could take that.
I've been out across the country, actually, for the past several weeks, and that is exactly what we hear, particularly with people who get out of the military on what I like to call the 30-day plan. They decide, “I'm outta here”, and in 30 days they are out. They just leave the forces. It's years later when they realize their knees are bad. That's probably related to the hundreds of times they jumped off the back of a MLVW or whatever it was. Then they look to put in their claims, but in their service health records there may not be a record from the military doctors on what they had been experiencing while they were in service.
That is a challenge. When I go out and about, I tell these older veterans, who are kind of my age, that if they are going to put in a claim today, they should get help getting that done. It is not evident from the disability claim form what is required there. The veterans service officers at the Legion are trained to do this. They are a resource veterans can use, or they can ask Veterans Affairs Canada themselves for assistance with getting those done. It is difficult to make that link to service when it's years down the road.