If my math is right, that's over 15 a day—15 a day that 24 people deal with, and 18 of them have no medical, military, or policing history.
I ask because one of the biggest things that VRAB does is adjudicate in terms of the “benefit of the doubt” clause. In over 600 cases that I've seen since 1997, right across this country, from World War II, Korean, etc., I have yet to see a case where the benefit of the doubt actually applied. If there is, I'd sure love to see it.
You talked about the medical evidence, and you're absolutely correct. We have seen time and time again World War II veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 60 years after the fact being denied their case because there's no medical evidence stating that in their file. They were denied. The benefit of the doubt would only assume that this would apply.
As you know, there are 750,000 World War II, Korean, RCMP, spouses of these folks, but DVA looks after only 220,000 of them.
Of the 432 cases of PTSD that you reviewed, how many did you review in favour of the client?