May I respond to that, Mr. Chairman?
Mr. Chairman, that's one of the realities in politics.
I can't resist saying this, but it's something like his party's commitment in 1993 to eliminate the GST—we're still waiting. So who made that promise and commitment?
I don't suggest for a minute that we're going to ignore the VIP issue. I know he's being very kind in how he's phrased this, and I'm going to be very kind as well in my response.
This is just one of the many challenges we have in Veterans Affairs to enhance the program, to do it consistently and not in an ad hoc—make it up as you go along—way. That's why I asked for a health care review, which is about a year to a year and a half away from completion. But there are some things we can and will do in the meantime.
Mr. St. Denis, we're going to make incremental progress on some of these files. We're going to advance some of them more quickly than others, but we want to do it as consistently and expeditiously as we can, in terms of delivery to the greatest number of people.