The number I mentioned is the number, I understand, who are out there who have not contacted Veterans Affairs Canada. Perhaps they don't have a reason to contact Veterans Affairs Canada.
One of the issues we have with respect to communicating is that the longer we put off communicating with the veterans, the more they're going to pass away, and before you know it, there will be very, very few veterans, save and except the modern-day veteran. I appreciate that there's one veteran left from World War I and there are several thousand from World War II and Korea, but once they all pass away, the number of people who will be clients of Veterans Affairs Canada, I feel, will diminish.
There are only so many, and as Mr. Stoffer just said a few moments ago, we're losing hundreds of veterans a day because of age. Regarding the communication difficulties, the more we sit on our hands and not communicate, the more the veterans are going to pass away. As I said, before you know it, if we don't do something quickly, within five or six or seven years, the population of veterans will be diminished, save and except the new veterans.