Veterans Affairs committee  Similar to Canadians, I apologize. There was an overall rate for females that was similar to Canadians. I was just corrected by my colleague.

Veterans Affairs committee  The answer is that, at least in my unit, we have not done large-scale studies of medication utilization, either of psychiatric medications or of medical marijuana. I don't have anything to report on that issue.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, a utilization study could be useful. I actually did a medication utilization study on veterans many years ago now, and one of the problems we ran into is that we're not the full provider. We're often the supplementary provider, so it means that we don't have the complete me

Veterans Affairs committee  No, I don't have those numbers with me. We could provide those numbers. It's hard to do direct comparisons, though, because the veteran populations are different across countries.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a challenge to actually do really true direct comparisons.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that zone of expertise is probably stronger with Dr. Courchesne, who was here a week ago, who's responsible for the areas of mental health service delivery and suicide prevention. It's not in my zone of expertise, so I won't answer that if you don't mind.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think it's what you mentioned earlier, engagement as early as possible, and also ensuring members are encouraged to develop a realistic plan before they leave. We've found veterans who have a realistic plan of release almost always do better across most of the studies. Then thi

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the statement I made was that almost all veterans will experience some kind of a challenge, because for many during transition almost everything can be changing at once. That could be military culture, housing, where they're living, social networks, source of income, and

Veterans Affairs committee  This is about completed suicides that we're counting, not people who have suicidal ideation. In terms of the suicide statistics, with completed suicides, it's done through data linkage with Statistics Canada. What we do is we get the record for as far back as we can go for everyo

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for this opportunity. First of all, I just want to mention to the committee that I'm losing my voice today, so please bear with me. Also, to help compensate for that, I've taken the unusual step of bringing a colleague with me, so if my voice dies on me, there will be

Veterans Affairs committee  The answer to that is yes, but I think I'll hand it over to Marcus to explain to you exactly how we're measuring those kinds of questions in the study.

Veterans Affairs committee  If I could add to Marcus's comment, on the second question around the health impacts, while a more complex strategy is required in order to really measure that effectively, you can ask people about it in a cross-sectional study, in the kind of study we're doing. Although it's not

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. It was my pleasure.

Veterans Affairs committee  We appreciate that feedback.

Veterans Affairs committee  I can't really speak to legislative timetables, but I can tell you that information from your committee, of course, would be very helpful in terms of the work the health care review is undertaking, as well as the research study that we're undertaking. As health policy is formul