Thank you.
I do not claim to be an expert on the table of disabilities. However, I am aware that Lisa Campbell in particular, when she was involved with Veterans Affairs Canada, certainly left her door open to enable women to speak to her and to identify different issues. I know that during her time there was work by a contractor—I believe it was Dr. Barbara Clow—to do a whole pile of reviews of that. I know that action was taken and reports were made. Unfortunately, we've never seen those documents publicly, and I know that certainly the veteran community would love to see what that subject matter expert found on those reviews.
My understanding is that they are acting on it. Maybe a whole pile of her recommendations are already actioned, but again, we don't know, so it's transparency.... I think things are happening and things are changing, but for anything that's women-specific, that's a new category.
It's easy when we tweak a male issue, but women-specific issues, such as female service-related infertility, didn't exist. To get that added to the books was many years of work. I think that tweaking something.... In prosthetics, women need slightly different prosthetics from men, but then the prosthetics are already there because it's part of the male disability issues. Anything female-specific is still a gap area that needs dedicated review. In fairness, it may be happening, but we don't know.