Veterans Affairs committee  It's a public hearing, yes, but whenever we look at posting our decisions, what we would be doing is de-personalizing them. Again, with the two concepts of trying to maintain the open court principle and trying to ensure transparency and getting information out there, to achieve

Veterans Affairs committee  No. We would take out all your personal information so that it's not evident that the decision is about your case.

Veterans Affairs committee  We would translate it into the other official language.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're not already doing it. This is an additional step that we would have to take.

Veterans Affairs committee  If we got a request like that, for a decision to be used in another case, it would have to be de-personalized.

Veterans Affairs committee  Again, we're protecting veterans' personal—

Veterans Affairs committee  I understand.

Veterans Affairs committee  We are required to do so, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  As Mr. Larlee mentioned, the challenge for us is the cost associated with it. It would amount to one-third of our budget.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know is the short answer. We wouldn't have the money today to do that.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's correct.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not overly familiar with the process, but normally to obtain additional funding we'd have to do some sort of Treasury Board submission and get it supported up through the line.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm happy to answer that question because I think we're making very good progress. Let me first state that the board received very warmly the recommendations of the Veterans Ombudsman in terms of some ways in which we can improve our program. As mentioned by Mr. Larlee, we have

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm going to ask Kathleen to speak to that after I finish going through these points, if I may. One of the other key initiatives that we have under way in response to the ombudsman's report is that we have put in place a team internally within the board to look at the format for

Veterans Affairs committee  I can probably add to that one. I think, as you heard in previous testimony, there's a very small percentage of cases that come to the board. Of the 35,000 to 40,000 decisions that are rendered by the department that are appealed to the board, only 10% to 15% come on to VRAB. Th