Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I apologize. We've been handing off the baton today. Our regular Veterans Affairs critic, Peter Stoffer, is not available.
What interests me when I look at the strategic outcomes is this. I can perhaps understand that veterans' compensation and financial support is less through 2011-12 than it is in 2009-10 because of the unfortunate loss of many of our veterans, but what I don't understand is that we see a reduction in veterans' health care costs as well. There is strategic outcome number one. In real terms, even for Canada Remembers, essentially there is a loss of expenditure ability or expenses on those programs over the three-year period. The Veterans Review and Appeal Board, also in real terms...because if we have a fixed amount, of course, over three years inflation erodes that same amount. For the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman there is also an erosion in real terms, and then for the Internal Services as well we see a reduction both in absolute and in real terms.
So I see the five strategic outcomes, and in every single case there are fewer funds available two years from now than in fiscal year 2009-10. That's a matter of some concern. Obviously Canadians support our veterans. We're concerned about services to our veterans, and yet there's a cutback in every sector.
Is that something you've already explained, and could you explain it to me?