There's a lot in that question, so maybe I'll start at the beginning.
In terms of the Department of Veterans Affairs and its budget, if you look at the main estimates that were recently tabled versus last year's, you will see that they're actually going up. That is a reflection of the population and the services. Veterans Affairs was assigned a 15% reduction target in terms of the proposals. The proposal that was accepted is related to, I'll say, the subsidization of marijuana for medical use for veterans, so that's the cut from the CER-related exercise.
The reduction the member was referring to in terms of the lawyers—and they may be housed at the Department of Justice; I will confirm that—is the expiration of a temporary program. I know people struggle with temporary programs because they often do get renewed. However, in this case, it was meant, as far as I know, to address a backlog. There had been a reasonably good dent put in the backlog, and that was the reason that funding was expiring on schedule. There are other kinds of temporary funding across the government that absolutely get renewed, but the initial idea of temporary funding is that it's time-limited to address a specific problem, and that was the case here.