Essentially, it's part of at least three pieces of legislation: the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, the Public Service Superannuation Act and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act. They're all a bit different. The one specific to veterans is that the survivor or contributor is not entitled to an annual allowance if, at the time the contributor married the survivor or began to cohabit with the survivor in a relationship of a conjugal nature, the contributor had attained the age of 60 years. That is very similar in the other cases of the legislation. For public servants, it's after retirement, instead of at 60.
Our association was supportive of the court case in the nineties. We've been working on this issue since 1992, as far as I know.
To answer the question that was posed earlier, for a survivor pension to have the reduced amount, you can do 30%, 40% or 50%, which, you can imagine, is a substantial amount for a couple on one pension.
We've been active, at least, since then. Speaking regularly with MPs on this file, I believe we went through the legal route by supporting the court case in the nineties, but have been taking the political route since then.
I'll let someone else speak, if they would like.