Public Accounts committee  I'll begin first on the question about reserves, and then I'll move back to the family. Firstly, we in the Canadian Forces would agree with everything you've said. Clearly with everything we've seen, we've known, we've practised, and that's in our culture, a strong family is the

Public Accounts committee  It's not an issue that they are only going to get ten treatments. It's that we can give ten treatments and then the health care system of the province would continue that support. There is a continuum of care. But you're right: all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and airwomen I t

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I'll speak first to give you some information, then turn it over to General Jaeger, to give you a vantage point from a soldier, an infanteer, a soldier who has been on many operations, as I have. But I speak from that vantage point. I touched on it briefly. Right now

Public Accounts committee  If I could interject for a moment, I think you're asking two questions. Firstly, are there programs in place at this point in time to help CF members? The answer is definitely yes. Secondly, is data on CF members readily available? That is a somewhat more difficult question to an

Public Accounts committee  To respond further to the question, the Canadian Forces, the department, has put a new program in place composed of three parts. It has been announced in Canadian Forces and actually been made public. The first is that we conduct safety sensitive testing of soldiers, sailors, ai

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, maybe I could just kind of build on it and give it a finer point. In 2005 I commanded Canadian military operations in Afghanistan for six months. Prior to deployment, there was screening of my soldiers, sailors, airmen, airwomen, and myself. We had the mental heal

Public Accounts committee  Yes, you are, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, Madam Auditor General of Canada, ladies and gentlemen, I am Major-General Walter Semianiw, Chief, Military Personnel. I am accompanied by Brigadier-General Hilary Jaeger, the Surgeon General of the Canadian Forces.

Official Languages committee  That's because my family is in Saint-Jean.

Official Languages committee  I sent the report yesterday. I spoke with the ombudsman and I told him that the report had been sent. It was there.

Official Languages committee  Thank you committee members and you, Mr. Chair.

Official Languages committee  I'd like to make a comment, please, Mr. Chair. To be promoted, Anglophones today have to meet the same requirements as Francophones. To become a chief warrant officer or chief petty officer in 2011, you'll have to have competency BBB. For colonels, captains and generals, it's CB

Official Languages committee  You're addressing your point to Commodore Bennett, I believe, who just last week was appointed the commandant, naval reserve. First, when we say “not bilingual”, if I can get into some of the details, if you look at what she discussed as part of her change of command parade, her

Official Languages committee  The answer is that we believe there may be, maybe not to the same scope and scale as that one found in Borden, but General Gosselin is looking already at the Saint-Jean issue, and we're looking into Gagetown as well and how we can do that. I come back to the question posed here.

Official Languages committee  I'll pass that to General Gosselin, who will focus on the Borden issue.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chairman, the questions and comments posed raise a number of issues. First it comes down to the issue of commitment. I would like to put this before the committee so that you are aware. Currently we are making many changes across our personnel management system. Starting thi