Thank you for that.
I'm going to come back to Mr. Lick. It's very interesting. You talked about how service attribution being decided through legal mechanisms incentivizes rejection and leads to members falling through the cracks. That really concerns me. When we look at the system, between the CAF and VAC, we're seeing too many people falling through the cracks.
For Canada to ask people to provide service to us in that profound way and to let them fall through the cracks, I think, is a significant failure that we should all be responsible for and all take action on.
In 2016, your predecessor published a report entitled “Determining Service Attribution for Medically Releasing Members”. Its recommendations were rejected by the then minister of national defence.
I'm wondering if you can speak to why service attribution needs to be as close to the injury or illness as possible, and the principles behind this recommendation.