The process to adjudicate and the criteria used to adjudicate are different between the two departments because we have different mandates.
The Canadian Armed Forces mandate is to care for our members, and not so much to look at benefits but at the health care they need. The Veterans Affairs mandate is different; they have more of a pension benefit mandate. Our criteria are looked at through a different lens. Our lens is really related to the health care they need, while Veterans Affairs looks more at the law that drives benefits.
I do not have to make a determination on whether it's service-related because it doesn't matter for the care I provide them, with some exceptions for our reservists. Only our reservists require determination, and that determination is made to decide it they are eligible or not for the care.