Public Safety committee  I couldn't tell you the detailed differences in the program, but it has been already adapted for the RCMP. I would think it wouldn't be too far a stretch to then adapt it as well for other first responder groups. I don't know if she's been a witness here, but Lieutenant-Colonel

Public Safety committee  Every province keeps health utilization data. At the research team I lead, we just found the veterans' identifier in the Ontario health utilization data. That's part of a big data set that Stats Canada links with a bunch of different sources. We were able to show that veterans in

Public Safety committee  We don't know.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, certainly, and I would say that in Canada it's a lot of the same researchers, many of whom you've heard from, such as Dr. Lanius and people like that, who are doing research on both groups anyway. They have expertise in biofeedback or brain biomarkers or PET scanning, and th

Public Safety committee  It's interesting, because there have been treatment centres with a research arm focused on first responders for longer than there have been those specifically for the military or, outside of the military, for veterans in particular. There is research out there on first responde

Public Safety committee  No. We know a lot about people who serve in the military. In Canada we know almost nothing about our veterans, because when you're released from the military, unless you were injured in service, you're not tracked by anybody. We have socialized medicine, which is great, and none

Public Safety committee  There aren't any large-scale studies. There really aren't. There is some great preliminary work on cannabinoid in Israel—for over 10 years—and they still haven't done a large-scale study. The reason is that nobody can patent it.

Public Safety committee  What I always like to say is that the plural of anecdote is not data.

Public Safety committee  I think it's really important that we get the data. All I'm saying is that we don't know.

Public Safety committee  I'll speak about the research that's been done. There are many good Internet-based treatment protocols out there. In fact, Dr. Merali and I were just talking. We're on a research team together that has developed a website for men's mental health specifically. It was funded by Mov

Public Safety committee  They're mostly done on rats right now.

Public Safety committee  As Mr. Dubé mentioned, it is a different exposure, and from my knowledge I don't think we have enough data to tell us at all.

Public Safety committee  You know, it's very interesting, because they did a very large-scale study in the U.K. on military people. They screened them for likelihood to develop post-traumatic stress disorder specifically. The people who they determined—based on childhood experiences of trauma and a bunch

Public Safety committee  The stats that Dr. Merali gave you are consistent for the military: about a third of the people who go into treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder are successfully treated, a third don't respond and will never respond, and a third stay in treatment. Of the ones who are suc