Finance committee  Approximately 5,500 veterans will benefit from this one-time compensated repayment, and the total benefits paid out under this initiative will be approximately $19.9 million.

Finance committee  They are quite separate and distinct from the lawsuit. The Manuge class action involved the SISIP program administered by the Department of National Defence. This bill relates to only three programs that are administered by Veterans Affairs Canada, so the Manuge decision, you could suggest, was the prelude to the decision by government, on a voluntary basis, if you will, to make a decision to cease offsetting the disability pension against these three programs that veterans enjoy.

Finance committee  I'm not really qualified to speak to that claim because it is a separate claim involving the RCMP, but I can tell you to my knowledge a settlement has been proposed, and I think you will find information about that on their website.