Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the question.
For the reasons I just mentioned, I can't comment on the five-year period, but what I can say about the retroactivity is that my understanding is that the retroactivity was there.
As I mentioned in my opening remarks, there were a number of veterans who had been registered in the system in 2012 and 2013-14. Because of the way the current legislation works, when we had a large influx of surplus workers into the system, our rate for appointment of medically released veterans went from a normal rate of about 150 per year down to a range of 30 per year. I think the retroactivity in part is to allow those people whose entitlement may have expired in the last two years, or been impacted through that difficult period, to have an additional five years of entitlement.
I'll ask Michael to confirm that, because it's an important part of this bill.