I don't think we can create in Canada something similar to the VA in the United States. This is an enormous health delivery organization that's actually bigger than the military itself in its provision of services.
It's not right to say that we can't use presumptive diagnosis as a guide for who we're going to provide care for and who we're going to look after. We could come up with our own version in Canada of what we believe to be places that are worthy of that consideration and a list of diagnoses to go with them. We have lots of research around the world. The ILO list that the previous witnesses mentioned is a good starting point. Also buried in or integral to the PACT Act is what the presumptive diagnoses are and what exposures the VA in the United States is currently prepared to compensate for and deal with.
There is no reason we couldn't just borrow it 100%. I don't see any harm in doing that. We spend too much time fighting about compensation and too much time.... We've devised an adversarial system, and it shouldn't be an adversarial system. That may work in law, but it doesn't work in medicine, so I think we need to go there.