The family caregiver relief benefit was introduced in budget 2015. It was clearly directed at supporting veterans and their families where care was fairly intensive and where the primary caregiver—oftentimes it's the spouse—needed some breaks. That's essentially what the relief benefit did. It basically was based on a calculation of the value of 30 days of care in a year. The idea was that the veteran could use that money to bring in a professional caregiver and thus afford the spouse or whoever was providing the care an opportunity to get away from it, to maybe take a vacation. It's very flexible. The money could be used to bring a family member from away to help out.
The ombudsman has tabled a report in which he has identified a number of issues and concerns around supports available to families. From our point of view, I think, we're very interested now in looking at those issues. As I said earlier, one of the initiatives we have under way through the direction of the minister is to establish an advisory committee on families to help us look at some of these issues, as a way to informing where we might go in the next round as part of the minister's mandate.
There's always more, I think, that one can do. I think we're making significant progress in that respect, but we will certainly be looking at these issues much more closely over the coming months, particularly given the ombudsman's expression of concern on the file.