I would like to know specifically about those files. If it's possible to have it on the record, we ask that those questions be provided to the minister and to the deputy minister to respond to this committee in that regard.
We have a really serious issue here around the treatment of women specifically with military sexual trauma. This one was very hard for me to stomach, especially the fact that her injuries impacted her ability to have children. VAC has not responded. This is something that I think we need to work significantly on.
We have talked a lot about medical files over the last eight years and how they aren't accessible to our veterans. I'm understanding that more and more. My understanding is that VAC doesn't have them. The veterans are considered third party, and in Canada they.... There's no access.
Has there been any movement on this issue? It was part of the recommendations that medical files be digitized and become property available to veterans at any time that they may want to have them.