I'm sorry to interrupt again, but I have only a limited amount of time.
In April 2023 you put out a strategy. Two and a half years later, in late 2025, you're telling me that the best data you have is from 2021. You have no way of knowing whether what you're doing is working. If you're going to measure success, don't you need to know what you've accomplished? You don't even know your starting point, let alone where you are now.
Perhaps we'll move on, then, since we don't seem to have any information there.
Let me ask you about services. In the time that your government has been in office, 10 years, the budget has more than doubled for the department. I think there was a 26% increase in the last year alone. I think you'd be really hard pressed to find a veteran anywhere who would say that they think services are twice as good or twice as fast in that period of time. In fact, I don't think I'd have to bet. We can look at your departmental plans, because they contain some metrics. They're a bit subjective, but they're metrics nonetheless.
In those reports, on just about every measure, veterans report lower satisfaction in a number of different areas that your department provides. It seems as though what your government's response has been is to push back the timeline to achieve your targets. You've pushed back most of them in this year's plan from March 2025 to March 2027.
I guess the question I'd have for you is this: If you're not achieving success, even by your own measures, wouldn't it make more sense to change what you're doing rather than just make veterans wait longer for better results?