You're quite right, Mr. Stoffer. The estimates do reflect a $96 million decrease in the amount for disability pensions and death payments. Those figures fell from $1.6 billion in the year previous, to $1.5 billion in these estimates. It's a direct function of the fact that traditional veterans are among us in smaller numbers and therefore their use of these programs goes down as that population goes down. It's a simple function of fewer traditional veterans still being among us in Canada and a lower draw on the associated benefits. It doesn't mean that any veteran who comes forward for those kinds of benefits would be denied; rather, it's an estimate of how many we expect to be in the program in the current year.
On May 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.