As stated before, we provided some recommendations.
One was the one I've mentioned several times, getting away from for-profit insurance and replacing it with a military pension. If you're disabled, you receive an accelerated pension because of the shortening of your career. Your normal career would span 30 years. Everybody expects that, and nobody expects to be disabled.
If you become severely disabled, then extra costs are involved. So we're supporting an advancement of one rank and release at that point.
Also, the army culture is such that, as I say, there's nothing for these people to do. So accelerated release is important, and Mr. Zimmermann has a very good case here as to why things need to be speeded up for people who have disabilities.
I realize that people with disabilities go to the front of the line for federal employment, but the problem is they still have to go through the resumé items and all that. When you went into the military as a career, you were working in areas that probably had no relevance to civilian life, so as a Cold War veteran and also as a 39-year veteran of the Department of National Defence, I feel these people need to go past the resumés and go directly into an apprenticeship, some type of on-the-job training. They need to be given that opportunity so they can be employed immediately. They'll have their accelerated military pension. I hope the honourable members will see the value of that, moving away from for-profit insurance, because if they do get a job, they will lose that insurance. It will be clawed back. That's our suggestion.
Also, the military could form what's known as a Canada command, people who may have disabilities but can still do services in the military. We recommend that they form a cyber command, because there are some very skilled people who could learn programming and the next wars are going to be fought as cyber wars. China has a huge force of 20,000 young people that they employ as hackers. They have hacked in and stolen all the diagrams for the F-35 and everything else. So we could have a Canada command of people who aren't going to be deployed overseas.