Veterans Affairs committee  That's correct.

Veterans Affairs committee  I have information going back to, I believe, 2009-10. At that time there were 154, and there were 171 in the following year. There were 143 in 2011-12.

Veterans Affairs committee  All of these were referred back to the minister under section 85 for decision-making.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there are approximately between 70 and 80.

Veterans Affairs committee  Partially, we have currently published all of our noteworthy leading and persuasive decisions, decisions that we feel are useful and provide some instruction around the law or are of general interest. The cost of publishing all decisions is about $3 million to $3.6 million a year, which is one-third of our budget.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I actually did some research into that, because it was raised to me by one of the veterans organizations. After looking into the Official Languages Act, I can say that using CanLII it doesn't relieve our organization, as a federal organization, from publishing in both official languages.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the board would be happy to have any financial means to publish all of the decisions, but in this time of restraint we've tried to find a way that shares with veterans the decisions that illustrate the most common conditions, decisions that illustrate areas of interpretation of law, and decisions that would be useful to them.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's right.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, it's registered with the board, and once it's ready to be scheduled it would be in about three months that we would get it to a hearing. So it's registered with the board, and then, on average, there's some shared time in there with a representative, and then once they say they have their case fully ready to go to a hearing, we usually have it to a hearing within three months, typically two.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. And then the decision is rendered within six weeks following the hearing.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's usually within--

Veterans Affairs committee  --yes--two and a half from the date of registration to the hearing, on average, and then it's another six weeks from the hearing to the decision.

Veterans Affairs committee  If it were contiguous, on average, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have any information at all on the ages and the combinations.