I think our expectations are very clear, and they have been established by the judge in the SISIP ruling. We have a government. God bless them, they want to harmonize with this legal decision. But harmonization must be complete. We can't cherry-pick through the issues we'd like to present, i.e., such as that we'll start the payments as of this date with no retroactivity, but if we're harmonizing to a program where retroactivity has been accorded, where the dignity has been accorded, we're creating a level where there are two standards. That's not acceptable to us. We believe that one veteran, one standard, should be the principle for all foundations through Veterans Affairs Canada.
We believe it is discriminatory, first of all, to exclude modern veterans, those who served in the Cold War. It would also be discriminatory were we to have a different policy for ELB or war pensioners' allowance when the government's primary objective is to harmonize these two programs with the SISIP decision. We expect full retroactivity—no more, no less.