Thank you very much for coming, Senator Dallaire. We're very pleased to hear your testimony. It's great to get recommendations too. I appreciate that.
You mentioned about your own personal experience and that you received some negative feedback from colleagues. I think your courage in going public has made it possible for other people to seek help. I hope you take a great deal of personal gratification and satisfaction from that. Until people do that, it stays behind closed doors, and I think you have done something that's made it somewhat easier for others to come forward and to seek help.
I was intrigued with your accounting of the experiences of having these flashbacks. I've talked to a number of soldiers who are currently going through this. We've had testimony here at committee in camera from young soldiers who described it in almost exactly the same terms. The striking similarities of what people have told me and told this committee when they've gone through PTSD has just amazed me. Clearly there's a way to diagnose this, and clearly we could be doing better, I think, in the Canadian Forces.
One of your recommendations was that the rotations are too frequent now because of the limited number of soldiers. At this point we're into Afghanistan now until 2011, and I think people are going back three times and perhaps even more than that, when I've looked at all the rotations going ahead. What is the solution to that?