I have a question for the commission here. Can they explain to us what, in their view, a survivor is—their definition of a survivor?
The reason I ask is that the traditional sense is that it is the husband or the wife or common-law partner of a deceased soldier, sailor, airman, or airwoman. But in a situation in which you have an individual who is, say, 50 years old and who has a son or a daughter who is 20ish and not married, and that 20-year-old relies on this individual who passes away, and you have the 20-year-old left alone, would that 20-year-old child be considered a survivor of a deceased veteran? If yes, would they then be entitled to any benefits in terms of priority in hiring and all that kind of stuff that follows through? Or does the survivor in the legal sense mean strictly the husband and wife or common-law partner of the individual who is deceased?