I would say, sir, first of all, that the Chief of the Defence staff doesn't have exactly the same scope as Treasury Board. Treasury Board has considerable scope. Treasury Board can revisit policies and applications, etc., but once Treasury Board has set those parameters, they apply to everybody.
I would say, however, that in terms of the problem of home equity loss, it's not a particularly good example of a grievance to which the chief's authority can be applied. I think that in the ones we're confronted with, it is exactly because the intent of the government, made quite clearly to limit the scope of that policy—