Veterans Affairs committee  I agree with you. This is very anecdotal because we've had veteran interns come and work at True Patriot Love. We try to do that on a regular basis, and we tend to focus on the ill and injured population because we know it's most challenging for them to find employment. With on

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  We are. Actually, we are hosting our fourth international symposium this fall. We're doing it in San Francisco. This will be the fourth year that we're doing it. Every year we bring together organizations like True Patriot Love, governments, academia, the medical community, and t

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. We issued a report from our last one recently. I think most importantly what comes out of that is less about all sitting down together and saying that we need to solve a problem together. It's more about the network that you create and the interaction that you have with orga

Veterans Affairs committee  They were. I would say less so with respect to the ill and injured. When we did the work at the Veterans Transition Advisory Council, we recognized that that could be the case in many situations. If you look at somebody who's releasing, who has been in the military for quite a wh

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, so that's fine, and it's probably a bit of a personal choice. I think the area where we were most concerned was with the younger veterans who were releasing, where you couldn't make that same argument necessarily. That was more where we were focusing our concern rather than

Veterans Affairs committee  We work very closely with all of those organizations. I think we're all pretty careful. To people on the outside it probably seems more disjointed than it does to us who are in this sector. Canada Company, for example, is probably the organization I deal with the most. I frequen

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I do, and I could get you the exact numbers. I don't have them with me. We are paying the full cost for the program this year, which is $250,000 for Edmonton.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. When they go national there obviously are going to be opportunities to scale it and to create some efficiencies in terms of number of staff. You can imagine how that would work. When we started working together and said that we were willing to work with them to get the seed

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we think we could do it by region. There's the one out west now. Our next one I think would be Ontario/Quebec. We would do one in Atlantic Canada, and possibly one more. It would be three to four sites.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I'm trying to remember if they had a site planned for Vancouver or not. It may be able to.

Veterans Affairs committee  The other thing I would say, too, is that especially when you're dealing with ill and injured veterans, the same thing doesn't work for every person. When we think about the different charities that we fund in the mental health space, last year we funded Paws Fur Thought, which i

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the things we talk about in our report—and again, I'm not sure who would take this on; it's fairly expensive to do—is some good marketing and advertising around this. The United States have done some of it whereby they show a veteran saying what they did in the military an

Veterans Affairs committee  We've done quite a bit of work. There are lots of different things out there. Take a program like Prospect's, for example. This one has proven to be the most successful. It's scalable. The cost per person for placing an individual is probably about $1,500, which is not bad. I thi

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we don't deliver the programs ourselves, but we had a couple of recommendations related to that. One of them focuses on the education of HR departments on how to read resumés from military people, because they can't. They don't know how to translate. The other side of that i