Veterans Affairs has been involved, as I said, with organizations like ADI and Wounded Warriors. That's certainly their prerogative. We certainly have done our best to keep them informed. The staff keeps changing, though, so that's very difficult.
However, they are aware of the national standard that we are about to develop, and they have reneged. They have said, no, they're not able to participate. For an organization that is so interested in developing national standards, I found it quite curious that, as Bill was saying, they would not want to at least support it if not necessarily get involved in it. It is a very specialized area. We understand that the government doesn't necessarily want to participate, but the government, the public sector, is very much a stakeholder in this work.
I am pretty sure that we can do this together, because we're going to have zero tolerance for adversarial behaviour. That's absolutely not acceptable. We will get nowhere fast again. There will be zero tolerance for that kind of behaviour. At this point in time, we will move forward regardless of which organizations want to participate or not. It's time. We will work together with stakeholders who wish to proceed and help our veterans and their families.
The other things that people need are support, information and resources—incredible support, resources and information. The standards are one of many tools in a tool kit, if you will. They are part of the bigger picture. They will not fix everything, but what they will do is provide an opportunity down the road so that if any level of government wants to reference standards in their legislation, they won't reference a brand; they will now reference a national standard of Canada that was developed in a fair and transparent process through basically regulated requirements. The Standards Council of Canada Act also guards this work and its integrity.