Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both of you for coming to the committee today.
I've been meeting with some families of military personnel who've served overseas and have come back with various traumas. A couple of the families I've met with have felt that there have been many obstacles in the way of getting a diagnosis, that it was a very lengthy process even though they were incredibly concerned about the person who'd come back from the mission. I'm sure that's something that all of the Canadian Forces is looking at and attempting to improve the services for.
But I want to ask particularly about the issue for reservists, because we know in the next rotation there's a large number of reservists going over—in fact, quite a few from my own community, New Westminster, the Royal Westminster Regiment.
One of the concerns I've had, and I know it was raised at the meeting last week—I wasn't here, but it wasn't addressed; there was no answer given in the testimony—is how will it work now for reservists? We know when the regular forces come back they'll be stationed at a base, they'll be part of the military community, for want of a better word, and yet reservists will go back perhaps to a community in the north or a community not near a base. How will the follow-up be done for post-traumatic stress disorder or acquired brain injuries, or any other kinds of injuries that reservists may find once they've gone back to their home communities?