I will. I'll attempt to be brief.
Just as a small parenthetical note, I don't think we've said this properly to all of our departmental officials gathered with us here tonight. I would offer our condolences or apologies for the process that you're engaged in. It's somewhat ridiculous to have all of you here for so long. Maybe I can move a friendly amendment to order in pizza, Chair, because I know there isn't enough food to go around, but maybe that's a budgetary matter.
This specific clause—when asking departmental officials, I'm not sure if it was you, Mr. Butler, before, but I don't think it was, at the departmental briefing—is about the clawback that the government instituted and was taken to court successfully. That started in 2006. What our provision does is it simply brings the clawback right back to 2006 when it began.
I've asked the department officials very clearly what the reasoning was for stopping before 2006, for not doing the full clawback, and I was told that it was a policy decision, which doesn't say much. It doesn't say much for our veterans. We move this motion to bring some fairness to our veterans and allow them the proper compensation, especially those who are injured, which is whom this applies to. We would see that the government hopefully would find some support in this, but that is our amendment, Chair.