Veterans Affairs committee  The report focuses on operational stress and suicide. We are making a comparison. Those elements were included in the old charter and in last year's report. They are in last year's report.

Veterans Affairs committee  It all depends on you. The draft report I wrote is a very dense document. I made almost no quotes in it, but rather references to all the witnesses, and there are 15 possible recommendations. It would take a couple of hours to turn it into an official report, but it's not as long

Veterans Affairs committee  I cannot call it a draft, because it's not official. It's a draft executive summary of what could be a report, in case something happens and you want to go fast.

Veterans Affairs committee  The vote for the tribunal was passed on the main estimates for 2010-11, and there's a new $11.5 million in the 2011-12 estimates, but now as a separate entity. It's not within the department's budget.

Veterans Affairs committee  On the “may” and the “shall,” one of the big differences is in the estimates. In the estimates, you have different votes: you have budget spending and legislative spending. If you put “shall”, that amount would be legislative spending and not budget spending, meaning that Parli

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. It's a big difference for budgeting, for the finance department and for Treasury Board.

Veterans Affairs committee  The French version says that the minister “peut“. The word “doit“ is not used when saying “des sommes seront payées“.

Veterans Affairs committee  There is no “shall“. The text reads “des sommes seront payées.”

Veterans Affairs committee  It will be ready, with nice tables in colour.

Veterans Affairs committee  They're ready. They're in my main computer.

Veterans Affairs committee  First we translate it, then we send it.

Veterans Affairs committee  In the briefing notes for this meeting, I identified three areas where the main issues have been addressed. I think the report will be organized around these three major issues. There is a lack of information about veterans in general, but there's nothing we can do about it. It

Veterans Affairs committee  I suggest it might be useful to have someone from the Department of Veterans Affairs in the U.S. They have a lot of information. There was a submission sent to the committee from a lady about veterans affairs, and I think that could be quite useful, too.

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay. I'll do it very rapidly. The department makes 40,000 decisions a year. Of those 40,000 decisions, in round numbers, 4,000 go to the review process, so 10% go to the review process. Of these 4,000, about 1,000 to 1,500 go to the appeal process, and 15 to 30, let's say, go

Veterans Affairs committee  In terms of Mr. Cohn, the program he developed is specifically on resilience building. It's specific to that. He got an award and he got a Royal Society.... It's on resilience building in the military, before deployment, and it seems to be working quite well.