To go back, the only time--and I'm sure our chair will indicate the same thing--something has been decided by the Department of Veterans Affairs was very early on in CFAC. In our deliberations we were given the challenge to rewrite the old charter or write a new one. We deliberated and discussed it and the decision was made by VAC to write a new one. Quite frankly, that made a lot of us quite happy, because we wouldn't be infringing on the traditional veterans.
Another point I would like to make is on the crossover of the various committees that we've discussed. We have a policy—in some portions of VAC they don't particularly like it, but that's just the way it is—where we have a crossover of the chairs of the various committees attending each other's committees. For example, although I was on her committee, I was also there as the chair of the mental health advisory committee, as was Professor Victor Marshall, who chairs the GAC, as was Bruce Henwood from the SNAG committee. The SNAG committee is meeting next week in Charlottetown on one of the routine meetings, and we will be there, as flies on the wall, and will make a short presentation.
We have found that this crossover of the chairs going to each other's meetings prevents a lot of duplication and is an exchange of information, to the extent that we have established an almost quasi-chair committee, if you want to use that term, with great rapport and so forth.
Is that--I hesitate to use the term--too powerful for VAC? I don't think so, because they know where we're coming from. It's all for the veterans and their families.