Thanks for your question.
As we mentioned earlier, we follow up on our reports year over year to see if the department or the Canadian Armed Forces has made progress in terms of implementing the recommendations that they have accepted. For the two reports we did in 2016, all of the recommendations we made were accepted by the department, yet we have seen very little movement in terms of their implementation.
Rather than continuing to follow up and show the public that there hasn't been very much movement in terms of implementation, we decided to try something different. What we did this time was, instead of just saying, “Here are the recommendations. Yes, they were accepted and, no, they have not been implemented,” we went back and asked, “Can you tell us what the barriers have been?”
Everyone agrees that all of these recommendations are still valid, they're still relevant today and they should still be implemented, but what has prevented the implementation of these recommendations over the past decade? The report is really focused on what those barriers have been so that we can try to unblock or find a way to mitigate them and to implement. Most of the recommendations in both of those reports were focused on communication of awareness and access to health care benefits for reserve force members.