One issue you have to look at is if the DND ombudsman is reporting to the Minister of Defence and now he's looking after Veterans Affairs, who's his boss? He has two.
On the resources side, if the DND ombudsman takes 2,000 and all of a sudden it spikes up to 30,000, what's that going to do to his office?
I would like to see a division of the two because of who you're going to answer to. Unless they answer to Parliament, and you make it a separate body, then that resolves the issue. I think you'll find the two-boss thing could create a problem.