Right now, our objective for the medium and long term is for your department to know that we will be following your progress in the next few years with interest. We will come back to review it, but always keeping the best interests of our veterans in mind.
I find it extremely difficult to assess your estimates. It might strike you as odd that I would make such a remark, but I look at your estimates and see that you are anticipating a few increases, but nothing major from one fiscal year to the next.
How can you predict what the medical needs will be? I imagine you would rely on data from previous years, but aren't future needs very difficult to predict?