Some of the money on the OSI clinics that we have dedicated was budgeted in 2007, and a lot of the cost to that was getting the program in the centres up and running, which we have done. So within Veterans Affairs there's been some adjustment. We have not lost any services to our veterans at Veterans Affairs, or any delivery of services to our veterans, and that's the important thing to remember.
When we take a look at the veterans population--and I'm reminded of this quite often--we're losing our World War II veterans. We're losing, on average, 20,000 a year, and the number of traditional World War II veterans is being reduced every year. Then we're bringing newer veterans to replace them. We'll never run out of veterans. We have that big number of about 170,000 World War II veterans left with us today. They're all octogenarians and some a little bit older. So we're losing somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 of those men and women every year. But our commitment and our financial resources to that family hasn't really changed, because we're continuing to award and adjust pensions for many of those, ongoing, because of ailments that crop up as a result of old age. Some of the support that's ongoing is for their widows or family members as well.
The department still has a very healthy budget, and despite the fact that we have a decreasing older veterans population, that budget really hasn't been diminished in terms of the service or the delivery of those services to those veterans.