Just on your earlier point, if I may, Mr. Chairman, the ombudsman asking if you have exhausted all your remedies says something to me. I don't know which ombudsman you're referring to in saying that, but that ombudsman may be saying that in the regime under which he or she operates, the party has recourse in the statute. The party can go to court, they have a cause of action, and so on, or maybe they've started that process and it hasn't finished yet.
What I hear in some comments today is the idea that this door doesn't open until after the ombudsman has been involved. In the regimes you're describing, it may be that this doorway to the court is open right from the beginning, and the individual has that choice. Some ombudsman you're referring to is therefore saying he is not going to get involved until you've exhausted all those court things. That's a policy on the part of that ombudsman. On the other hand, it may be set out in legislation for the ombudsman that he intervenes when those remedies have been exhausted.
What you want to do is say you don't want that regime. You want veterans to have their first option with the ombudsman. They go to court after the ombudsman has been unsuccessful or, by the way, the ombudsman goes to court.