Sure.
Once again, the Canadian Armed Forces would deliver health care services to members as they transition from one location geographically, provincially or otherwise. That would be its responsibility.
When a veteran leaves the service, how long would it take for them to access benefits and services? There are two streams. We have people who are still serving in the Canadian Armed Forces who apply for Veterans Affairs benefits, things like pain and suffering compensation and others. About 25% of applications we see for pain and suffering compensation come from still-serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
That means about 75% of them come after, so there are many who transition out of the military, realize they may have had impacts to their health as a result of their military service and may come back to us at Veterans Affairs a year later, five years later or even 25 years later, to say that they've had impacts from their service. At that time, we would go get their medical records from the military to be able to assess and make the determination of a service relationship to the injury they've suffered. That's easier in a digital age, but we still have a number of records that would still be in paper files, so we have to be able to go get them from wherever they're located within the Canadian Armed Forces or within the National Archives.