Certainly, to answer the second one first, because I'm not familiar enough with the system, I don't know what improvements could be made. I don't know.
But touching on the first one, certainly from general conversation with my fellow members, the feeling is quite clear that if you served your country in a setting that is recognized as operational in some sense, then you should have the same rights of access to care and services that war service people do—because what actually is the difference?
However, this raises the question of “a veteran is a veteran is a veteran”. Does the same thing then apply to someone who served in Gagetown for three years and then got out, but then had a vehicle accident, or whatever, with a neck injury? How do those relate?
I'm not sure where the boundary would be drawn there, once that person gets out of the Canadian Forces system and becomes a veteran. I don't have an answer on what should be done with that person.