I'd be happy to do that.
In terms of the communication of services and what's out there, I think that's a straightforward internal function of Veterans Affairs and what happens there. But I do want to point to a very specific example, because the question of rural services is absolutely critical, and the point the honourable member made with respect to partnerships.
One of the things that's currently happening is that DND has established a very strong partnership with various acute care rehabilitation facilities across the country, in all of the provinces. For example, GF Strong is our major provincial rehabilitation centre in British Columbia.
From what I gather, it's working really well. It's trying to address the issue of bringing services for veterans as close to home as possible. Rather than having one major trauma rehab centre in Ottawa, you structure these various arrangements with different rehab centres, whether it's Sunnybrook in Toronto or GF on the west coast, the ones across the board.
In my view, there's absolutely no reason--particularly with services in rural areas--why there would not be an opportunity to do exactly the same in the context of holistic rehabilitation with various workers' compensation boards. I'll just use our province as an example. The fact is we have somewhere between 1,500 and 2,500 permanently disabled individuals every year. Most of them come from rural communities. So the infrastructure and development is set up, and that is supported through regional offices. I don't see why one could not look at a creative partnership, understanding that there are issues around the military family.
The problem, frankly, with the case management system that's driven out of Veteran Affairs is that there is a massive caseload; you have relatively few resources that you can allocate, and you've got a vast dispersion. So why would you not tap into an existing system that is designed to serve those needs? Veterans Affairs is really, as I mentioned in my earlier comments, the occupational injury carrier for disabled veterans in the same way that a workers' compensation board is responsible for occupational injuries.
So I think there are some excellent opportunities to achieve much better outcomes for the disabled veteran--that we are certainly not getting today--through some creativity. I would encourage you to perhaps look at starting this with a pilot project with one of the provinces. I would suspect that our board might be quite interested in supporting this type of endeavour from an evaluation point of view to see if we could get better outcomes at the end of the day. I'm sure we could.