To answer your question on the connection between the two offices, under the current mandate for the CF ombudsman, former members can go back with a complaint. The issue then becomes where the dividing line is between a VAC member and a former member of the Canadian Forces. So that's going to be something that has to be worked out. And it could be worked into the legislation when it is written.
The other thing that has to be taken into account is the transfer of information. If the information that the current CF ombudsman has is confidential and private, is he able then to release that information to the VAC ombudsman and vice versa? That's going to have to be put into legislation.
The connection between the two offices is going to have to be seriously looked at in order to ensure that nobody falls through the cracks. The soldier will cross between the two because they are so closely linked.