Veterans Affairs committee  I'll never speak about a specific case, and I don't know the details of the case you're speaking of, from a medical point of view. In general, we have a robust Role 3 hospital in Kandahar. We have mental health professionals; the Americans have taken over. We absolutely train our leaders.

Veterans Affairs committee  There's a health screening. There's all kinds of legislation, human rights and all that. There's a health questionnaire, and for now it's based on the honesty of the person--i.e., “I have a peanut allergy.” In fact, next week we are briefing all of our physicians' assistants who do the medicals across the country.

Veterans Affairs committee  Just to complement what my colleague here said, we are recognized, within NATO, within the armed forces, as the “stigma busters”. I will go to a NATO meeting and people will say, “Well, in Canada, you guys have that sorted out.” It's not as perfect as that, but it asks the exact same questions of British soldiers, U.S. soldiers, and Australians.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. That's a personal thing, but it's also a leadership thing. Sometimes you have a very keen member who keeps jumping up and keeps volunteering for tours. As a leader, sometimes you have to say, “That's enough. Take care of things at home.” What we're trying to teach are individual coping skills, these big four.

Veterans Affairs committee  The screening is called enhanced post-deployment screening. It's done three to six months after every deployment for anybody who's had a deployment of 120 days. Because we have it canned, we will decide to use it in certain situations, even if they're not that long. For example, in the case of the Chicoutimi sailors, I was in Scotland with them, so we decided what they had gone through warranted this, and we screened them and followed them.

Veterans Affairs committee  The screening—

Veterans Affairs committee  I can start. Statistically, we've shown that it's not. There's a very interesting thing here. Statistically, there's a thing called association. I've deployed four times. Stéphane Grenier has deployed as well. We've both been in Rwanda. We've been in Afghanistan. We've been places.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, all those factors.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, they do.

Veterans Affairs committee  For reservists, it depends on the type of contract you're on.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are two initiatives going on. Actually, the statistics that we're showing are CF regular force.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I mean, veterans we wouldn't necessarily do anyway. I think the reservist is a good question. It's very hard to define reservists. Statistically speaking, there are people who parade one day a week, one day a month, and there are people who are on full-time contracts, those kinds of things.

Veterans Affairs committee  We are in a very large country. So you can't have a 50-person clinic on the west coast of Newfoundland--

Veterans Affairs committee  --but you can fly the soldiers into Halifax to get their assessment. We have gone all over the Atlantic to try to train people. Somebody asked the question about training. We put on workshops to try to increase the level of knowledge within the professionals in the communities to help look after the soldiers.

Veterans Affairs committee  No.