National Defence committee  As I indicated to Mr. Coderre and the committee, this is a growth industry. As I also indicated earlier--not that it's within my purview--I think more money should be devoted to the increased number of PSCs and FPSCs, the regional coordinators, and so forth. You've made the poi

National Defence committee  I'm going to ask Shawn to comment on that and then Major Le Beau, but I can assure you as a long-time infanteer and so forth.... You look at the actions that have happened in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The regimental sergeant major was killed. His two warrant officers were killed

National Defence committee  No. I'm going to answer that to start with. As one of your members indicated, with all due respect to the combat role, sometimes on the other missions you are not able to return fire. You have to stand there and take it, including suffering casualties, as they did in many missi

National Defence committee  If I may, I'll just clarify a point. Remember, the figures you're hearing are for those who are approaching the PSCs and so forth. There are quite a number of people who will walk in, particularly in the district offices and so forth, who will not have seen a PSC. The number in

National Defence committee  If I may, sir, you have to trust the system. That's why you have the mental health professionals there, and the doctors and so forth. The medical documents are confidential. However, having said that, the bureaucracy is such that if an individual has a problem and needs to recei

National Defence committee  If I may, the two co-managers here have conducted many briefings in the United States, everything from Miami to Las Vegas. They didn't go there because of the gambling. They went there because there was a conference there, and in the Netherlands and so forth. That's where we're h

National Defence committee  Well, thank you, sir. I've done 14 tours; that's why my OSI didn't get identified until last year.

National Defence committee  If I may, Mr. McGuire, we know of whom you speak. In fact, I know the parents very well; they come to Calgary for the annual ceremony, and part of the healing process for them was to talk to fellow parents and widows and so forth. They're very sympathetic to the other family. T

National Defence committee  General Hillier is one of the very strong supporters of the Eykelenboom Boomer’s Legacy, which is run by Maureen Eykelenboom in memory of the medic who was killed. As a matter of fact, I'm one of the directors. General Hillier's personal involvement in fundraisers is significan

National Defence committee  That's way out of my purview, but I must admit that I'm on the advisory committee, and we just had a meeting three weeks ago. In the minutes, or the recommendations in the minutes, will be additional PSCs and FPSCs. As I said, we don't have any executive authority, but we do ha

National Defence committee  Sure. We look at the past, at the present, and where we're going in the future.

National Defence committee  I couldn't agree more, and with the stigma of getting on that bus.... Where's the bus going? Guess what? And we understand that. But that was obviously not the decision of our two co-managers. It was disappointing, and I know Dave is disappointed in it. We're disappointed in it.

National Defence committee  As a non-departmental representative, I'll give you my personal point of view, and these two will skate around the question, or give you a candid opinion. If you look at where this program started from, with four people, it took senior management, as you say, General Couture an

National Defence committee  In your area, Ms. Gallant, Petawawa, the former base commander, Dave Rundle, who you know quite well, was a permanent member of our advisory council for a couple of years before he moved on. He's an outstanding individual and had a significant number of initiatives on his own, at

National Defence committee  I think Kathy has some figures for you here. Of the 197, how many would be active? They're not all active, as I indicated; some of them would go for a couple of months.