The Veterans Review and Appeal Board and VAC don't work together, per se, to say what their policies are, because we have to sit in judgment of their policies. I assume they have a process internally that looks at our decisions over time.
I've had the advantage of meeting regularly with the deputy minister to talk about cases. For example, we've met a couple of times on hearing loss and tinnitus. The board interprets the VAC policy much more generously than VAC does, so we're seeing an influx of those cases. We obviously reach out to VAC and say, “If we're going to get here at the same time, then maybe there's a way we can do this.”
Yes, it's like how the Federal Court makes a decision and the board has to reflect on what it's doing in respect of that. Well, we are the tribunal, and I assume that VAC has a process to stay atop of those decisions.