I think that with post-traumatic stress disorder and the increased sense of awareness of it, we've overcome some of the basic hurdles in getting it recognized through workers' compensation. In that sense, the more knowledge there is and the more it's accepted as a workplace illness, then some of the issues around contractual agreements go away.
I think the bigger issue with it, and what we've experienced in some of the provinces that have recognized it, is recurrence. It's a disease that just simply doesn't disappear. If a person's being treated for cancer and they're five years in remission and they're symptom-free, you can declare that they've beaten that cancer. I don't think the same applies here, and this is where I know that in some of the provinces that have recognized PTSD, we're having a real problem. A person enters the program and is deemed to have post-traumatic stress disorder; it's covered off under workers' compensation; they get a series of treatments; they're given a clean bill of health and they then sent back to work; but with any recurrence they have to start going through the same set of rules to determine again whether or not they have PTSD. So it just creates another stress around the person.
Contractually, I think it's like anything. As we get more knowledge of this, I think we do have to recognize it within the terms of the contract. One of the key issues, as Vince and everyone talked about is the awareness issue of it. If first responders can get some early psychological treatment covered through some enhanced health benefits, even before it's diagnosed to be directly related to PTSD, they can get some help for mental health issues. The vast majority of first responder contracts, when it comes to psychological counselling, are extremely poor. You would eat up what's in your contract with about one or two visits.