your background serves you well in asking it since your background is in medicine and the like. It's great to have your expertise on this panel in that regard.
I think that the Prime Minister's decision to name me the associate minister of National Defence allows us to take that information back to the work I'm going to do with Minister Sajjan and look at how we can do things better. Other jurisdictions have looked at the model that we're prescribing of having a joint ministry and allowing our veterans who are releasing from the military to get the help they need when they need it, both financial and other benefits, whether it's a return to work or education. I think this is a great suggestion of how we can take some of that knowledge.
I think one of those things we also have to remember is that many times we'll have a person who leaves the military who feels at that time that they're 100% good and then we find 15 years later, after having jumped out of 400 planes, that the person has knee problems. It's important to consider how we understand that and how we build that into our models of trying to do things better on both the DND side and how we recognize things at Veterans Affairs.
It would be remiss for me not to say that we're taking an attitude of giving veterans the benefit of the doubt. They will get the services they need when they need them, when that situation comes. You have a tough guy who's jumped out of planes but didn't really have a note on his file that said his knees were hurting. When he reappears at Veterans Affairs, we want to use some of this analysis and say that, although it's not on his medical file, we can figure out the reason why he is here and needs our help.
We're transitioning the entire department to try to take that attitude of getting the veterans the help they need when they need it.