I think I can speak to that. Thanks very much for the question as well as for Bill C-357 and that reference.
I think it's exceedingly important that as we do this work that's critical to protecting Canadians' safety, which is what our members do behind the scenes—not many folks understand the work that's being done—the resourcing certainly is a huge issue. When there's a lack of resources, it adds extensive pressure to our members who are in these institutions, in the community parole offices and in the community correctional centres, undertaking this work. It's frontline work and support-level work. Everybody is impacted by this work. It's stressful work to begin with. Certainly the potential for operational stress injuries is high to begin with in corrections. We know this. However, without proper resourcing, it's even more so. It's compounding. In order to have proper assessment and proper outcomes, I think we know we're going to need to have healthy public safety personnel.
We've been calling on all parties to support the contents of Bill C-357 as it relates to the modifications of GECA, the Government Employees Compensation Act, so that all federal public safety employees are treated equally across our country. Currently, it's at the discretion of provinces. GECA hands down that assessment to individual provinces. As a result, our members aren't treated equally. They aren't presumed to get coverage in all provinces the same way. That means a member in one province might be getting presumptive coverage for their injury, whereas in another province they may not. It's not fair. It doesn't leave us in a good position as we continue to see more of our USJE members going off on stress injury.