Okay. If we stay with the same example, this master corporal received $5,400 under the old charter, but under the new one, he would get $1,600 per month, which is a difference of $3,800 per month. That is a big difference, even if you add in the lump sum payment of $267,000 or so. If you spread it out over 35 years—the person has 35 years before his pension if he is 30 years old—that is not a lot. We are a long way from a reasonable standard of living.
It must be said that these payments are made if the person's claim is accepted. The problem of getting the claim accepted still remains. Generally speaking, what proportion of these claims is accepted? How many of them do you contest? How long can it take for a person's file to make the rounds of the system before it is acknowledged that he was injured? I can offer you the Nicolas Magnan case as an example; he has now been waiting for 28 months after being injured and his case is still not resolved. He is still appealing it.
It is all very well to have a doctor telling someone that his two ankles are no longer working, that they will never work again and that they are going to remain rigid. But the file takes three or four years to make the rounds of the system before the injury is acknowledged. What does the person live on in the meantime? Why is it so difficult to get these claims approved?
You said earlier that it was because of government legislation. But it is not the government that processes claims from veterans, it is the officials from this department.