If I may have a couple minutes, Mr. Chair.
Our policy framework or policies are overly complex right now. They look like legal documents, and we want them to be clear, we want them to speak for themselves, so that the brave men and women who have these benefits can understand the policies and the directives before them.
Mr. Casey mentioned Guy Parent, the ombudsman. We are having an exciting partnership project with the office of the ombudsman. They had an idea of how we can make the benefits more veteran-focused. If you are a veteran you are looking at your benefits, your services. You can go to a simple tool that will show that. They have developed a benefits navigator, which we took a bit further. This would be a tool for departmental staff to use when facing a veteran and the veteran has questions. It can show them where the veteran served, what type of veteran the person is, what programs they are interested in. And then we have the legislation, the regulation, the policy, and all the directives in one place to streamline the process, to get the information out to the veteran more openly more transparently, and to aid Mr. Hillier's side of the house on service delivery, so those veterans can get the services faster and in a more open and transparent fashion.
That is a project that we have that we are calling policy renewal, which is simplifying the policies to make them more user-friendly, as opposed to someone needing a law degree to understand them.