With regard to the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada, we have 67 units across the country and seven provincial commands. We have a structure very similar to that of the Royal Canadian Legion. We have Dominion conventions every two years, resolutions come from the membership to that committee, are passed at the convention, and brought back to Ottawa as my mandate for the work of the office for the next two years.
In addition to that I have a 16-member board of directors that has a provincial president from every provincial command within our association, as well as a Dominion vice-president from every province in which we have units. All those people have been consulted in that presentation and the majority of our priorities come from the resolutions passed by our membership.
In addition to that I have also consulted with Robert Cassels, a Dominion past president of ours who served on the VAC-CFAC advisory council as well as the new Veterans Charter advisory group, as well as past president Ken Henderson who served on the gerontological advisory council, my predecessor Lorne McCartney, and our honorary president Gerry Wharton. All very knowledgeable on what has gone on with the legislation.
I would agree with Brian that when we had a list of priorities to be changed, we were told by the government of the day we couldn't do all those, give us three. We gave the government three and still nothing happened. Those are definitely the top three priorities but if we can add some priorities, as Mr. Forbes has eloquently spoken to, let's do it and get it right.