Yes. I totally agree with what she is saying. Definitely you need a liaison officer to facilitate, maybe for the first six months or a year or two years, to see how they are progressing, because there are some vets who are truly broken. They are so physically and/or psychologically injured that they can't function. I heard stories while I was in service and even now being out and dealing with patients through Spartan Wellness about some of these people who get out. They are just lost because they don't have either a family doctor or a nurse practitioner to get a grip on their health care with them. It goes pear-shaped. A lot of them turn to alcohol and drugs. There is family violence and suicide attempts. People are lost. I can speak from the medical side. We need to work with the provincial ministries of health to ensure that when someone gets out, there is already a family doctor in place or a nurse practitioner, because a lot of this could be helped if they had a family doctor or nurse practitioner. A lot of people have physical injuries for which they need appropriately prescribed narcotics or antidepressants or a referral for physio or massage therapy. There are a lots of things that vets need that are not getting done because they are missing pieces in part of their transitioning out.
On April 10th, 2019. See this statement in context.