Thank you.
Madam Hinton indicated earlier that if we could move on and deal with the health aspect of veterans, move on to that file, that would be the way to go.
I have a statement here by the Minister of Veterans Affairs, from April 13. It says: “...one of the first things I did upon becoming minister was an overview of all the health services to veterans, and that is one where we want to enhance it, to improve it, along with a lot of other things. I mean we can't do it all in one year, but when that report is in, which should be in within the year, we'll act on it.”
I assume Veterans Affairs already has a health review going on. He said it will be within the year, which should be fairly soon. My concern is that we tried to do the bill of rights, and the government announced it while we were discussing it. If we continue with the health services review, which could take a good while, is the government going to announce their health services review before we're finished again? Could this happen again?
It says right here that he said the report should be out within a year. What report is that? If Veterans Affairs is working on a report outside of this committee, they have the right to do that. But surely we should be addressed about the issue so that we're not duplicating any work and we're not spinning our wheels.
I'd like to know something in this regard. If we continue with the health services review, where is that review by Veterans Affairs? Is it already finished? Are they reviewing it? Are we going to get caught up again, as we just were? To be honest with you, that wouldn't make me very happy.