Mr. Chair, that's a very difficult question for me to answer, because fundamentally I don't know what information the department holds on the various issues. We encountered that. It has been a learning experience, but we encountered that with the homeless issue, for example. We went through the process of an access to information request, because as an ombudsman I don't mind information being withheld from me if I know it exists, but I'm trying to make a balanced and objective statement on any of the issues that we have.
First and foremost, I have to make sure that I have at least the information that the general public has. We went through that exercise and found that there were thousands of pages of documentation that we had not been privy to. So I think, through this memorandum of understanding, the department recognizes the role of the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman and the service we provide all levels of government in what we do through our town halls and those sorts of things. I'm satisfied that through this memorandum of understanding we'll be afforded at least the level of information sharing that we would get through ATIP.