As a non-departmental representative, I'll give you my personal point of view, and these two will skate around the question, or give you a candid opinion.
If you look at where this program started from, with four people, it took senior management, as you say, General Couture and Mr. Ferguson, to get onboard and make it work. But the money wasn't there. They eventually got the money. And lately, as you know, with the new funding for Veterans Affairs, you have the five new OSI clinics. These are very successful and not as bureaucratic as the OTSSCs; you can get through them a little more quickly, which is just a question of the methods of operations between the two departments.
I notice that the Surgeon General, God bless her, is going to bring in 450 more clinical staff. I don't know where she's going to find them, but this will be great. What we would like to see is, how many of those are going to be PSCs, and how many more are going to be FPSCs? I might add that Cyndi is only one of two female peer support coordinators. The FPSCs are all females, so they are a little unique. But it's not a matter of gender, but of who can do the job.
So it would be nice if some of that DND funding—and we have VAC funding of $9.5 million from the last budget....
Is there a shortage? To answer your question, yes, there is, sir. I'm sure they would like to have many more people.