Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, folks, for your presentation.
One of the biggest concerns that I have is when someone makes an appeal, usually.... The biggest one I have is for hearing loss, an aging veteran with hearing loss. Of course they are told repeatedly, and I have seen the documents at the table, that the government is correct in its assumption that it is a 5% disability or a 10% disability and that is it.
In order to have changes to that table of disabilities, if I have called it that correctly, who has the authority to change it in order to increase the benefit to aging veterans in that regard? Do you have the ability to do that, or does the deputy minister? Is it the minister or is it Parliament that has the final decision on changing the amounts that are in that table of disabilities to assist veterans and their families?