I wanted to go back to this. One of the big challenges is access. It's access, it's communications, and it's burden of proof. It's a whole bunch of things. We have a private member's bill in the works that hopefully will address some of that. It's to do a couple of things.
One is to break down the communication barrier between DND and VAC, which is neither department's fault. It's the Privacy Act that gets in the way. The essence of the private member's bill is to take away that barrier so that DND can transfer and must transfer information directly to VAC, so you don't have to wait and go through the access to information office to get your own information.
The other thing we're trying to put in there is that the member must get, if he asks for it, a copy of his medical file. DND can keep the original, which they have to for a variety of reasons, such as archive purposes and so on. If the member has a copy of his or her medical file, then obviously it speeds up their transition to VAC. Or if they're not a VAC client and they're just going out into civvy street and seeking out a GP, having their own medical file obviously would make that transition much easier, I would think.