Veterans Affairs committee  That's the number of war service veterans, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's regional in some senses. In some places we have longer wait lists, but on the whole we don't have a wait list for contract beds. We don't have a lot of trouble placing veterans in community beds, where the majority, some 7,000, are now placed.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, they did. One of the individuals who is on there is probably one of the foremost researchers on family caregiving in the country, if not North America. That's Professor Norah Keating from the Centre of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta. She's a very gentle and kind

Veterans Affairs committee  We'll see if we can get an extract from her and send it to you, sir. How's that?

Veterans Affairs committee  I can't really speculate on that, but if we were to ask any ten veterans who are now eligible for long-term care in our own contract beds in larger centres where they would like to go, seven of the ten would say they'd like to stay in their own communities.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's exactly what we propose--to go to a needs-based model. That would be the policy foundation of the change from a largely entitlement and complex eligibility foundation to a needs-based foundation. Ideally, if you have the need and any eligibility, you can be responded to in

Veterans Affairs committee  That's the hope.

Veterans Affairs committee  The smart way for me to answer is to say it is a note to yourself, but it's not. You're quite correct. The government had a choice to make on this one, and the choice we made was to ask the Gerontological Advisory Council--and they worked nearly for a year on this--to solicit vi

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm constrained from answering. I understand your question, but that's probably a question that's better addressed to the minister, sir. I think there is a very broad awareness in the public service that supports Veterans Affairs, and from the Gerontological Advisory Council, of

Veterans Affairs committee  Monsieur Gaudet, we couldn't agree with you more. Part of the rehabilitation program that was approved as the new veterans charter was for psychological rehabilitation. Up to the time I checked most recently, the majority of individuals who are coming into the rehabilitation prog

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I believe the minister has made a public commitment to try to bring this to government in the fall. I believe we are on track to do that, sir.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, unfortunately there are. They would be people who have eligibility for our expensive contract beds but who do not have eligibility for the veterans independence program.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, sir.

Veterans Affairs committee  We do have a capacity here called proactive screening. What that phone unit does is telephone veterans who we feel are at relatively higher risk of health incidents. We'll follow up on them rather than waiting for the veteran to tell us that something is wrong. That proactive scr

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know that we're necessarily adding veterans to the rolls. They would be people who are on the rolls now. One of the things that we're doing, to get back to Mr. Gaudet's question, is contacting younger veterans who have gone through our transition interview process when t