I'm going to turn it to the unknown. VAC has only approximately 14% of women who are receiving benefits. The invisibility is of women who have served and are not known to VAC or who think, because of the issues, that they don't deserve to be considered as veterans. Dr. Maya Eichler has commented on that, that it's a self-defeating problem where there is an “I don't deserve it” feeling. VAC is trying to reach out, but its methods are.... It's a very difficult task for a government to create a sense of trust that it does care and to please apply, that it's there to listen.
I don't envy that, but I think that.... We have the 14% with the difficulty, as you say, of showing that this is warranted, because there are no examples of precedent. These are new decisions being made. It's an ever-changing landscape, but in particular, one of the problems—for men and women—is that when they have served, they have served under certain policies. The decisions about their release were decided at that point in time. When the policies change, that doesn't affect them. They're stuck with the old one.