Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to welcome you to the committee. I have missed a few meetings lately, but I have the impression that this was an important meeting to attend. I want to congratulate you on this program that I would call a mentoring program. I am an engineer. We have our own kind of mentoring program for engineers. Some information can be shared among peers that cannot be provided in any other way. That is the key aspect of your program.
There has been talk about funding. I think that your program is an investment because you are able to help people who have much more serious health and psychological problems. We are basically talking about broken lives. You can give these people hope and help them get back on their feet. That is extremely encouraging. What you are doing goes to the heart of our work, and so it is interesting to listen to you.
You are helping us understand and demystify post-traumatic stress syndrome. I have a few short questions for you on that.
Do you also help people who have psychological problems? You said that there are 21 coordinators for peers, who are soldiers and veterans, and 20 for families. You mentioned that there were 3,000 clients and 77 families. I find the number of military peers very high compared with the number of families.
Do you have francophone coordinators? If so, how many? Does the number depend on demand? It is important for people to be able to speak French if that is their mother tongue. I see that you have coordinators who speak Newfoundland, which is the third national language, but do you have coordinators who speak French?
If there is time, I will ask a more personal question.