Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm going to just use one case study in particular. An individual was in my office. He's a young man. He came back from Afghanistan, and he was getting treated. He went to see a psychologist he was referred to. He's with Veterans Affairs now. He's no longer in the military. He sat down with a psychologist and the psychologist looked at him and said, “Well, I really don't know how to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, but we'll go through this together and we'll see what happens.” This leads me to chapter 4, page 3, of the Auditor General's report, when she reported that mental health work is being contracted out to civilian workers who don't have the experience or knowledge to treat injured individuals. That has to do with the military, with DND. I'm sure a lot of it spills over. I'm not sure exactly what the division is. That's one question.
The real question is how do you choose health care providers? What criteria do you use to assess their capabilities? When you have a psychologist or a psychiatrist or a mental health care provider, where do they get their training? Is it mainly through school? Do you look at what training they have afterwards? Is it a combination of all?
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