I would comment that when we were first made aware that there was going to be a further parliamentary review, we felt that it was not necessary. I'll pay this compliment to the committee: You had done a report in 2010 that endorsed the new Veterans Charter advisory group report and also added supplementary recommendations for improvements to the charter. We felt that it was time for that report to be implemented.
Do we really need a further study when those reports of 2009 and 2010 as well as the report from 2013 by the veterans ombudsman overlap many of the recommendations in those earlier reports? Without criticizing the good intentions of this committee, it was our position that your committee had done its work and that it wasn't necessary to do further review. I appreciate that the minister and others felt that other voices should be heard, but in our respectful opinion, there's been enough study.