Veterans Affairs committee  That's no problem at all.

Veterans Affairs committee  No.

Veterans Affairs committee  With that, you also have to look at, particularly for the military and the RCMP, the time of service. Females, up until now, have not been doing 25 years in either one of them, whereas males have. You have to look at time in versus pension, basically. It's simple.

Veterans Affairs committee  This change took place approximately 10 years ago. Like I said, I'm more than willing to reach out again to this gentleman, who has already said that he has no problem talking to your committee and giving his background and his advice to you so you can look at it, too.

Veterans Affairs committee  On that, there were not. Retirement seminars for people who are releasing from the forces do not talk about this. The other situation we have to look at is the age factors in the military. Now we allow people to come into the forces up to the age of 55, and then suddenly at 60, t

Veterans Affairs committee  I've been out of the military for a number of years. I was released at the age of 60. I have the privilege of turning 68 this year. When I was released, I didn't even get to one of those seminars because the unit I was employed by felt it was more important that I spend time doin

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly. Basically, I reached out to this gentleman. He used to teach at West Point. As I said, he was a special adviser to the secretary of the army. We chatted about it. We didn't really get much into the mechanics of how it changed. Basically, they've removed the clause fro

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. In my research, I contacted the U.S. military about a gold digger clause in their pensions. They went through their whole pension thing approximately 10 years ago and reviewed it totally. I was communicating with one of their senior majors who dealt with this at the

Veterans Affairs committee  May I interject, please?

Veterans Affairs committee  It's in reference to this one. The United States military went through this approximately 10 years ago and corrected the situation.

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry to step in on this.

Veterans Affairs committee  I do, if you don't mind. The public service union was the one who took this to the Supreme Court back in the 1990s. It cost them a lot of money. They don't want to go back to the courts on it because of that situation. The RCMP are looking at going after it. Retiree association

Veterans Affairs committee  It also goes back to the fact that, all through their careers, common-law relations are recognized by the military and then all of a sudden at 60, it is not recognized.

Veterans Affairs committee  Basically, it was like the other gentleman. When Tracy came into my life, we were looking at whether she would get any benefits from my military service and Veterans Affairs. The only one that came up as no, basically, was the superannuation act. Everything else she's good for,