Harold's perspective is correct. If, of course, we had a wish and a dream that we could go back and rewrite this whole thing and recreate the original Veterans Charter for modern Canadian Forces' veterans, absolutely. However, the reality is right here and I know that you guys are under some pretty tight constraints in terms of budgets, but you need something tangible, doable, right away.
I take you at your promise, Mr. Lizon, that this is not the first kick at the cat, because the minister in his testimony to the Senate on March 26 said that this could be our only kick at the cat, and that was quite disappointing. So I would hope that, first of all, we have regular, legislated parliamentary reviews of the new Veterans Charter every two years that are comprehensive. So we repeat this every two years, and that would be part of one of the legislative changes.
I'll let Don speak about the three priorities, but in terms of the family I wanted to add for Mr. Chicoine's benefit and yourself that when a relatively healthy veteran is transitioning and going through rehabilitation, we pay half of the child care expenses. But when a family is burdened with spouses losing jobs and suffering career consequences while caring for the severely disabled veteran, we provide no child care whatsoever. Absolutely 100% child care for TPI veteran families. It's a no-brainer.
The other one is that because many of those family members cannot pursue their original career, we should open up the vocational rehab to them, not just if they're TPI veterans, but open the education to both of them. It shouldn't be one or the other. The TPI veterans should be able to expand under vocational and professional exposure to the community, and the wife or husband should be able to reconsider what their participation will be in a new career while taking care of the severely disabled.