Okay, well you can comment on that as well.
Then there is an even greater gap or deficiency and breach of continuity when they leave the forces and become veterans and go to a severely diminished service by comparison. I would like you to comment on that, especially on the effect on people who have PTSD and may not even know it, or have PTSD, are being treated for it, and then lose that treatment when they leave the forces and become veterans.
Ron, I keep hearing words like “social covenant” and “sacred obligation to care for veterans and their families throughout their lives by allowing them to maintain a quality of life that is worthy of the sacrifices that they have made for Canada”. That has a specific meaning for me. It means we have to look after our veterans. We have to maintain a quality of life so that, as you say, they don't wind up on the streets after turning 65.
Do you feel that the new Veterans Charter has been applied in a way that this feeling, that sentiment, actually manifests itself in the programs that are offered?
Should those words be included in this legislation in a preamble of sorts, and what would they mean if they were?
Chris or Phil, could you go first?