Thank you.
First of all, very quickly, Mr. Heilman, thank you for what you're doing. This has been a long time in coming, as you are aware. This term “closing the seam” has been part of the conversations at this committee since 2016.
You've mentioned a couple of times things around the electronic records that you're getting to VAC now. However, you say when “VAC requests” and “when the member requests”.
In looking at this down the road and with the potential for more cases out of COVID, we want to be ahead of the game. Is there not a way for the Canadian Armed Forces to create a form right now that goes out to every member and tells them that to expedite their case, if and when it would be needed, please sign here that they recognize that their files will be available at VAC immediately, and that by signing this they are agreeing to have those files transferred to VAC?
Would that not work? Please answer yes, no or give a quick explanation of why.