Ms. Bastien, I'd like to ask you a question.
I've been on this committee now for over three years, and one of the things I find puzzling from that answer—and I think it's a fair answer—is that I've heard from the department that it's impossible to contact all the veterans. Yet we just heard from Mr. Pedlar that Statistics Canada was able to contact 4,000 veterans to see if they're employed, or fully employed. Yet from the department we've heard that it's just not possible to contact them to see if they're receiving services.
I'm just wondering how that process would take place through Statistics Canada but not through Veterans Affairs, and why we can't contact them to see if they're eligible for services.