National Defence committee  I have more information.

National Defence committee  The information will now be raised and provided at the end of each calendar year. That decision was made in mid-October 2007, and I have that information with me today. Just to remind you, the information is broad; it's not specific. It needs to be broad. First we have to take

National Defence committee  Oui. If you take a look at the overall numbers of injuries, among the 20,000 personnel who have been there since then, the total number of deaths and injuries has been 749. When one looks at it from a purely percentage point of view, the numbers do come down, and looking at th

National Defence committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for having invited me to appear before your committee to speak to the health challenges involved in consecutive deployments. I am MGen Walter Semianiw, Chief of Military Personnel of the Canadian Forces. Wi

Public Accounts committee  Aside from the Auditor General's report--and we have to do better--I would add that the leadership of the Canadian Forces and the department did tell Brigadier General Jaeger in the month of October that she is directed to spend whatever money she needs to get it right for soldie

Public Accounts committee  Just to reiterate the comments up front. Again, we fully embrace and support the recommendations of the Auditor General, not just with what's been done, but in the future working with her team to continue to move ahead. The action plan we've put in place to start addressing in a

Public Accounts committee  We are taking steps. We could sit here for hours and lay everything out that we're doing. It's not the aim of this committee, but I'd be more than happy for you to come and receive a briefing on what we're doing. I think you'd be very pleased to see this, as we're moving it ahead

Public Accounts committee  Yes. We brought it with us, and we'd be more than happy, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  If I may, I come back to the comment and the point that was made here that we have the information, but it's at what level? Right now, at our bases and wings, our medical teams know what the challenges are. When they need additional staff, they get hold of her. We ensure that the

Public Accounts committee  To give it some historical perspective, the Canadian Forces, as stated, established these military family resource centres across the country. They do sterling work in assisting families who have loved ones overseas on any operation. I know the discussion gets focused on Afghanis

Public Accounts committee  Just to be clear, if we were to bring a base wing surgeon in who has a geographic catch basin, he'd probably give you a pretty clear assessment of the state of that area. So it's rolling it up together, and we could do that. But again, I come back to this committee, why we're her

Public Accounts committee  If I can kick off here before General Jaeger comes back, on the first comment you made, first, if you had the information but you didn't have the programs, what would that achieve? I would come back and tell you--which I think is the tougher question--what has this department and

Public Accounts committee  Aside from the money piece, to come back to the discussion in front of us, I would agree with you. First, if we look at the soldiers who have fallen, is there a price the nation can put on any soldier who fell? I would submit you cannot.

Public Accounts committee  That then segues for me into a very critical question of can you then perhaps sit back and say that a health care system that's providing health care to those in uniform who have an unlimited liability contract with not only society but this nation somehow should be constrained b

Public Accounts committee  --because there is a responsibility that we need to do that. I could sit here and tell you that we have, over the last number of years, moved very quickly to establish a stronger link between us and the Department of Veterans Affairs, but to segue it back into an issue here it