Veterans Affairs committee  I would say yes. I think you would have to look at demographics. We have pre-baby-boomers, baby boomers, next-gens, Y-gens, X-gens. Industry will tell you they all have different outlooks on life. There's the “me now” generation; there's the generation of instant communications.

Veterans Affairs committee  If you've got the first three reports, would you like the fourth?

Veterans Affairs committee  The department may have had it translated already. I don't know.

Veterans Affairs committee  My first inclination would be nothing.

Veterans Affairs committee  But backing up a bit, what would be lost would be health care for the families. The member pays for that. What was found was that a lot of the Canadian Forces veterans who were leaving were not necessarily entitled to access the public service health care plan. So that would be l

Veterans Affairs committee  No one has asked me that question before, so I haven't synthesized it thoroughly through. I've listed two or three things that would be gone. Out of those two or three things, only one might accrue to the special needs veteran. That might be the health care. When it comes to job

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll give you the top five.

Veterans Affairs committee  Fix the lump sum disability award.

Veterans Affairs committee  The second one is to provide tangible support to families. And I would leave it at that.

Veterans Affairs committee  The families part you can then subdivide into a whole series of things.

Veterans Affairs committee  Our report number four was all focused on families.

Veterans Affairs committee  I might toss in--and you could put this under families--that we giveth with one hand and we faileth with the other. We gave the public service health care plan to those veterans who are disabled and to any transitioning Canadian Forces member, but what was not given was the pensi

Veterans Affairs committee  The chances are that if they have pension conditions, it would be the Pension Act, not the new Veterans Charter. As for contract beds or long-term care beds, I've been assured there will be beds, but I don't know who will pay for them.

Veterans Affairs committee  We had recommended that instead of providing a lump sum up front, they perhaps structure it over the life course, do it as an annuity, as a structured payment, or in lump sums, but smaller lump sums at 25, 30, 35, 40. We provided these recommendations to the department as a way t

Veterans Affairs committee  They tell me all the time.