Veterans Affairs committee  I think that's true, but here we get into the mixed exposures that I mentioned earlier. It wasn't just uranium, it wasn't just even depleted uranium.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that's true.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Whistling Dixie. I didn't know you all knew about Dixie. I think it's complicated. The suffering of an individual patient is case by case. All I can tell you is that we've seen it here too. As I said, depleted uranium is, I think, lower on the list of our current veterans' co

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, all.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. We had hearings on this side of the border on that. Yes, Madam.

Veterans Affairs committee  Right. This is a good chance for me to fill the committee in, because they're probably saying 84 and 1,300. We have two different big missions for DU. The first is the detailed surveillance of the 84 who were on or in a vehicle when it was hit; the other is that mail-in urine sur

Veterans Affairs committee  —experience of 3,000...sorry.

Veterans Affairs committee  Correct. We have four new members of the cohort from OIF; they were also all friendly fire.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not a benefits expert, but I know there is not a presumptive disability for depleted uranium.

Veterans Affairs committee  Not presumptive, it goes through on a case-by-case basis.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's a separate group from us.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that's true, but within that large laundry list there's a hierarchy.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that's a Canadian decision because you all know where people were and were not at the time of potential exposure. From what I've read and from what I've heard from your expert panel, I think that sounds accurate.