It should be. The only thing is, of course, they lost mine. Usually, as you probably know—I'm probably telling everybody something they know well—in the service, if anybody is injured, a board of inquiry is convened, an incident report is created, and that sort of thing. These are the things our veterans go back to.
I had one case, for instance, where this was lost. The guy injured his back on a parachute jump. But being a macho guy, he never reported sick, because he had done four jumps and had two more to do to qualify. We had a heck of a job proving this guy's back injury, which deteriorated as he got out of the service and he was unable to do the job he wanted. We had no record of it. This was when our association really got in touch with his buddies. If you read Legion Magazine, for instance, you'll often see in the lost trails, “Did anybody know Private Jones who fell off a truck in Germany? Evidence is needed to support a pension claim.” This is really the connection. In other words, let's say DND provides the evidence, Veterans Affairs provides the assessment, and presumably the pension is triggered.
A few years ago we came up with a group called the Centre. Some of you may know it. This was a joint DND and Veterans Affairs operation. It was just around the corner from here, as a matter of fact. This is when they were staffed by both, and this enabled things to move faster. One of the things they did that never really happened is they set up four centres to test people for the effects of DDT. We thought this was great because this was our biggest problem. Could we use it? Certainly it was open to all veterans. Well, apparently the Centre either shut, moved, or didn't open. We never really did get much out of it.
To this extent, we do cooperate with Veterans Affairs and DND, but they have a distinct role to play. DND provides the evidence and Veterans Affairs then assesses it and determines what pension or treatment the person could have. This may be changing, of course, in light of the Afghan situation.