Veterans Affairs committee  I can speak to the tele-mental-health side of things, which is what you may be referring to.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're still early days in this. In the department we've conducted three pilot projects, at this point, to ensure that we know what we're getting into when we enter the tele-mental-health field. It is a field that is available in all the provinces of Canada, but it is tricky. Yo

Veterans Affairs committee  If I understood you correctly, you were asking how many clients of Veterans Affairs who receive disability benefits are still serving in the Canadian Forces. I don't have the figure for all our clients, but of the 11,888 clients who have psychiatric conditions, 1,369 are still s

Veterans Affairs committee  As just a final comment on that, I find it disturbing that we're not making more movement in this area, because the World Health Organization indicates that by 2010, I believe, or in the neighbourhood of 2015, it will be the second leading cause of disability in the world next to

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have an answer to that, but I can get it to you.

Veterans Affairs committee  I can give you some general information. I don't have all the details with me here. Hopefully, we can do that when we have a more detailed presentation on the mental health strategy. It was conducted in 2002, and it was a general community health survey conducted by Statistics

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have any information on that at all. That's essentially pursued by Statistics Canada.

Veterans Affairs committee  As I mentioned earlier, I think we're making progress in terms of the stigma associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, and that's reflected in the number of clients we have. In terms of depression, I'm not so sure, and that's reflective generally of Canadian society. There

Veterans Affairs committee  Correct.

Veterans Affairs committee  But to answer your question more directly, they are not considered veterans while they continue to be employed within the Canadian Forces. They have to be released in order to be considered veterans.

Veterans Affairs committee  The actual pension would be provided by Veterans Affairs while they continue to serve in the military, but they would not be considered a veteran until they're released.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's correct.

Veterans Affairs committee  We have ten clinics that actually complement the five DND operational trauma and stress support centres. So there are essentially 15 points of service between Veterans Affairs and the Department of National Defence. Going from west to east, there is one in each of Vancouver, Edmo

Veterans Affairs committee  All of our operational stress injury clinics, with the exception of the one that will offer a residential program, are out-patient services. Clients simply come in and receive services and leave. The residential treatment program will be a program of eight weeks' duration, and it

Veterans Affairs committee  If I could add to that, on the mental health side, the committee may be interested in knowing we are aggressively pursuing a tele-mental-health network so we can link some of these individuals in local communities through the tele-health network that may exist there to our operat