I think that's a fabulous question. Just to let you know, I'm stuck right in the middle of it, personally, because I retired in January. I'm trying to figure the system out, and I come from a health background.
Just so you know, it isn't the medical services that declare you not universally fit. It's the CAF itself, and that is a technicality.
I think it's how we write our policies at a departmental level, in terms of what you're going to accept. I will try to give you something useful here. We need to have a policy—seamlessness between service and post-service time—where it isn't the member trying to navigate the system, which is what it is now. The whole burden is put on the member: “Find this. Pull that. Give that. Dig this up.” What we have to look at is not only policy changes that state, “If you have someone who has an expertise in military attribution—they did this while they were deployed in Somalia, for example—it doesn't have to be reproven for at least the initial stages within VAC.” We need to have a look at, through seamlessness, policy and mandate letters between, I'm going to say, departments, because that's always a unique space.
Secondly, how about making that health record seamlessly transferable? While there are some privacy technicalities that go in there, what you shouldn't have to do is an absolute complete review of everything that's ever happened to you. In order to leave the military.... Even if you leave without medical release, it's the same situation. You don't come out of this unscathed, unfortunately. When it has been attributed, why can't that be the first record already in the system in VAC, which starts the assessment before you? It's the same questions being asked again and again.
A seamless health record policy—to do that, as well as a mandate, would make it easier.