Thank you, Minister.
Thank you, Mr. Oliphant.
The way we account for expenditures in the department is by program. That's what you see in the main estimates and the supplementaries, so it is very difficult to read through the estimates the question you're asking. We could attempt to give you an estimate of what that would be, but we have to recognize that many of the veterans who are serving or have served in Afghanistan are not yet our clients.
As the minister said, the National Defence way of doing things is that even if the member is injured, they will keep the member within the Canadian Forces for three years. That's their modus operandi. If we take into account the mental health, the post-traumatic stress, or the operational stress injuries that could arise, or that the member could realize as an issue, only a few years after he's left the Canadian Forces, I would say that we haven't fully seen the impact of the Afghanistan returnees in the department.