Thank you, Padre.
Certainly one of our ongoing roles and ongoing challenges is how we help foster community. Padre Fletcher mentioned that earlier.
Establishing, maintaining, and nurturing community within the reserve has its own unique dimension. Certainly reserve chaplains are themselves situated within their own civilian communities. They have a unique role as that intersection point within many of our smaller communities, which may have limited resources, whether those are health care resources, mental health resources, social support networks. Often it's the local parish priest, or in many places in Quebec right now, it's the school chaplain or school counsellor, who may also be a reserve chaplain. They are that focal point, around which they intentionally try to build community.
It's something we are intentionally trying to do within the reserve. How do we give reserve chaplains the tools, the resources, necessary to be able to do, in that context, what they do quite naturally in their civilian lives? That is, again, to help establish and nurture community, to meet the specific needs of those reservists and their families who may feel isolated. When isolation grows, along with isolation grows despair. It's that loss of hope that we're continually trying to work against, to help people, wherever they are in their spiritual journey, find places of hope and meaning where that's been damaged.