Thank you very much.
I would just try to explain the purpose for which Veterans Affairs obtains medical files in looking at a veteran's application for any number of programs, most specifically disability benefits. We do access information from the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence in support of those applications for which we have to determine a service relationship for an injury or illness that's been suffered by a Canadian Armed Forces member, transitioning member or veteran.
We only ask for the information relevant to the disability, illness or injury that they are looking for so that we don't access, inappropriately, an entire file of information on medical history or otherwise that we don't actually need to render a decision for a particular benefit. We only access that part. The file remains the property of the Department of National Defence, ultimately, for the individual veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces or the member.
We do have still-serving Canadian Armed Forces members who make applications. That information, again, comes when they make the application. In the need or intent to provide seamless transition, our interests and our obligation are to try to make sure that all of the benefits that need to be in place to help support somebody going through a transitory process are in place before that person transitions. We work very diligently with the Canadian Armed Forces to do so.