Again, I did talk fairly extensively to some of them. I was there half a day, and I'm more than willing to go back. That's one of the areas we're paying a lot of attention to.
I mentioned in my opening remarks, as you know, Mr. Perron, that 9,000 veterans are presently pensionable, or are in a pensionable condition under the old charter, as a result of post-traumatic stress, occupational stress, injury, and so on. It's an area that's going to be increasingly prevalent and growing simply because of the stress situations some of our soldiers are in.
Again, I go back to Roméo Dallaire, who says that he believes we have the best system of any country in the world, going into the future in terms of dealing with that specific disorder. He's quite convinced that we're doing the right thing and that we're on the right track.
We're watching that very carefully. We know there's going to be a definite increase in post-traumatic stress syndrome and the accompanying diseases--mental illnesses, alcoholism, drug dependency, and some of the silent diseases that we often don't deal with effectively, and I think the department is well on the way to doing that. I'm quite encouraged by what I see.