I'll be meeting with the minister tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, and this is one of the items that's on my agenda with the minister. We're hoping that he will be willing to take a look at the whole program, especially on being able to pay the initial cost of a veteran going into the program. My understanding is that's in the neighbourhood of about $15,000 per veteran, and it's over a three-month period. Then there's follow-up after that. So we're hoping the minister will be able to grab ahold of the whole program.
The Legion, itself, has committed that $1 million to get the administration end of it across the country so that all veterans, from coast to coast to coast, are able to be part and parcel of that program.
I guess, Mr. Casey, the bottom line here is that I'm not going to go away. I'm going to be in the face of the minister every opportunity I have. Of course it will be on a good note, but it will also be letting him know that the veterans need everything that we....
Everything that they gave, we have to pay back twice. They put their lives on the line. Some didn't leave Canada. I was one of them. I didn't leave the country. And I've been treated very well. But we have veterans right now who are 23, 24, and 25 years of age who are sitting with PTSD. They may have a physical disability that they're hiding at this point in time. They're afraid to go to their commanding officer and say, I've got this and I've got that, because what's going to happen is their military career is over. And they don't want that.