Thank you.
As I mentioned earlier, one of the eight advisory committees to the Mental Health Commission is its first nation and Métis advisory committee. This issue has been very much front and centre both at the advisory committee level and also on our board, in which Manitok Thompson from Nunavut and Madeleine Dion Stout from Vancouver provide very significant first nations and Inuit voices at the commission.
I mentioned earlier mental health first aid. We are in the process of completing an adaptation of this that is specific to indigenous populations because of the elevated risk for suicide, recognizing that there are many social determinants of health and illness that play out in particular for our first nations, Inuit, and Métis people.
With regard to the military, we have had tremendous input from Lieutenant-Colonel Stéphane Grenier in the area of post-traumatic stress disorder and peer support, which has been a very powerful force within the Canadian armed forces. We have been developing, for the civilian population, a peer support initiative to help people that draws very heavily on the military experience, much as they have in the United States. The United States Air Force suicide prevention program is one of the finest in the world and draws heavily on the peer support element.
If I may, I'd like to ask Mary Bartram to comment specifically on the mental strategy with respect to these two issues.