The Canadian context is that after the Second World War, we did in fact have a charter. The charter at the time—or so it's been described—was a suite of benefits that helped re-establish all those men and women who came back. There were farm loans, educational loans, soldiers' insurance provisions, and so on. There was a range of them. Over many years, as that cohort aged, the need for that programming dropped off and governments dropped the programs.
As we headed into the late 1990s and early 2000s, as a younger cohort was now being released from the military—and some after more aggressive peacekeeping than we had seen for many years, such as Bosnia, Somalia, and so on—there was now a resurgence or a requirement to meet this new need. In a way, the new Veterans Charter programming tried in a modern context to mirror some of the programs that existed back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in particular the concept of rehabilitation and achieving well-being. If you can't find a job and you can't easily reintegrate, you're not going to be very well. That's what the research showed, so that's essentially how it evolved in the current context.