Up to 300,000? That is a lot of people, I think we all agree.
Before my time is up, although I want to get to that matter, I want to say that I understand how difficult it can be to deal with a federal bureaucracy at times. It's often like running into a brick wall. In my experience, dealing with Veterans Affairs is generally better than dealing with most other parts of the bureaucracy, but certainly everybody here at this table understands and everybody at home understands and sympathizes with how difficult it can be to deal with a bureaucracy as large as we have with the Government of Canada.
When we're talking about potentially up to 300,000 people, obviously if you were to set up this program, you would have to put some dates in place. Or would you just leave it wide open, from the beginning of when this started to happen until...? On what date would you close it off?
Obviously there are problems with implementation; there always are, in anything you do. With the residential school apology, one of the biggest things to happen in our country in the last five years, it was great. The acknowledgment was there on behalf of the Government of Canada, and first nations people in my community who were affected were touched by it. But there were still people left out in the actual implementation of it.
What dates would you recommend for the implementation?