Veterans Affairs committee  From what I've listened to—just to give you a short answer—I think it's positive. I think a complete study of that particular science is what's required. It may solve some of the problems that VAC has with client interface.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the addressing of the shortcomings and the flaws in the new Veterans Charter is an absolute. That has to be done. They talk about “sustaining the new Veterans Charter”. Now, I'm not exactly sure how that fits in with correcting the flaws, but if you're asking for a sort o

Veterans Affairs committee  The recommendations about which we are speaking here are the most recent ones that this committee made. The report came out in May of this year. Those are the ones I'm referring to. We have not prioritized those in any way.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm speaking more to the previous recommendations that were made.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I threw in the other 18, because after reading them, we decided they were pretty good recommendations.

Veterans Affairs committee  In the previous incarnation of the stakeholders committee, the Veterans Affairs Canada advisory committee, there was an attempt to put priorities on those various recommendations, but it did not go through. It was decided that they're all equally important and must all be impleme

Veterans Affairs committee  I think I can start here with the simple statement that the people of Canada have an obligation to the veterans of Canada. I don't need to go any deeper. Now, how the people of Canada decide to pay that obligation or to fulfill that obligation, that's what our government looks af

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, not exactly. The obligation is on the people of Canada, and the thing that drives Canada is our government. It's the government's obligation, then, to fulfill that obligation of the Canadian people towards its veterans.

Veterans Affairs committee  We haven't had any information back. Incidentally, the 18 recommendations, the most recent made by this committee, were not part of the motions that were passed in the stakeholders committee. In fact, Mr. Chair, perhaps I could summarize the motions that were passed by the st

Veterans Affairs committee  Nothing yet.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, we don't really have the capability for that kind of research. I know that the NATO Veterans Organization has produced some numbers in those terms, but I'm not even sure what they've done. But no, we have not.

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, Mr. Chair, I get to do a wrap-up.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'd like to then carry on with other issues that are not necessarily part of the transformation but that impact on the shape of the transformation. The first of those, which has been a long-time irritant for all modern-day veterans, is long-term health care for modern-day veteran

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, sir.