I'm not sure what recommendations I can make that would go outside the Canadian Forces purview, if you will. We've considered the family and the impact upon the family of the operational stress injuries, PTSD, and other injuries. We've considered all of that and the fact that, holistically, you should be able to treat the family together. In some cases we do that, even though that's not our mandate, because we have no recourse for some small number of situations. You know the Canada Health Act proscribes us from doing that. Actually, even if we could, we are not even close to having the resources, specialists, and people in place. We're still struggling to get them in place for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and airwomen, let alone that huge number of people who would constitute their families.
I suggest perhaps a partnership with the provinces where we have those issues that are most stark. Ontario and New Brunswick are those cases in point. If we'd had the civilian specialists in and around the Pembroke-Petawawa area, maybe we wouldn't have had such a challenge. Can we work better with Ontario? Can we work better with the Canadian Medical Association, with the Canadian Nurses Association to actually be able to set that up?
It's not to entice people to go there permanently if they don't want to, but maybe to get use of their services on a consistent, temporary basis. That's one of the things we've started doing with the OSISS clinic, moving people from here in Ottawa to Petawawa on that consistent routine basis. So I suggest maybe a better partnership with Ontario, a better partnership with New Brunswick, and working together to see where we can go, because right now it is a challenge. We know that. Petawawa and Gagetown perhaps, too, are the greatest challenges.
Beyond that, I wish I did have a clear answer to offer, but I think a partnership with those provinces is going to be the fundamental base on which we can build something better than what we have now.