Veterans Affairs committee  No. There is an assessment. Do you mean if you want to change them?

Veterans Affairs committee  Oh, sure. When we discuss the estimates and when the minister comes, I will provide you with a nice table on how much all the benefits should cost.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's very difficult.

Veterans Affairs committee  You know, in 2002 nobody knew that Canada would be going to Afghanistan for 10 years.

Veterans Affairs committee  This is the new objective; it hasn't been the case. They tried to do as much as they could, but the new approach is to try to do that. They are keeping them in the forces longer than before. For some it's an issue, because they are kept in the forces when they cannot be very useful.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. They're more than pilot projects at the resource centres. They are trying to make the transition easier. The problem is they cannot force the provinces to provide the services in the areas where the veterans happen to live. All sorts of issues make it a case-by-case approach.

Veterans Affairs committee  For veterans?

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, some of the services come through the provinces, but there are many agreements between the federal government and the provinces to provide services to veterans. There are mental health clinics, federally funded clinics, that are hosted in provincial institutions. There are also some other relationships: long-term care, for example.

Veterans Affairs committee  We can do that, of course.

Veterans Affairs committee  The definition was part of a discussion in the committee about who should be included in families. Some had a very wide definition, some a narrow definition. If you look at page 1 of the document in the recommendations, you will see that was the result of the whole discussion: to have rehab services given to spouses or common law partners.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  You can revisit that because at the end of the June 2014 report, the government had said that it would implement all the recommendations, not necessarily in the next six months, but all of them; this was part of that. The government had agreed that these recommendations be implemented.

Veterans Affairs committee  There was a specific report on chemical exposure. There was never a specific report on mental health and suicide. It was studied, but it was not published as a study and there were no recommendations. It fell on the order paper, so there was never a report.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  We can introduce the evidence.