Mr. Chairman, one of our concerns is that we've been told—I don't know if it's true, and you gentlemen can tell me otherwise—that to get Government of Canada approval for an ombudsman, it would take probably up to five years, and that's if everything works well. In that time, using Veterans Affairs' numbers, we would have 150,000 fewer veterans, because they would die in the interval. We're losing veterans at the rate of 2,500 a month.
On November 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.