Mr. Chair and sir, a whole variety of measures, many of which I've spoken to here. We've increased the number of medical specialists and the specialists we need in Petawawa. We've increased them in Gagetown, and we're going to increase them even more, despite all the massive challenges of being able to attract people to go there, civilians and/or military, truthfully.
We've started a program, as I mentioned earlier also, about specialists who live here in Ottawa, for example, consistently working in Petawawa, not to move there but to actually spend probably a majority of their time there on a consistent basis, to give that same level of care in Petawawa, increased care, as they would give here in Ottawa, and doing exactly the same thing, as I recall our discussion, from Halifax to Gagetown, for exactly those same reasons.
We are taking a whole variety of measures exactly along that line, because we are determined we're going to have one high standard of care, regardless of where you are as a soldier, sailor, airman or airwoman. That's our goal and that's what we're going ensure occurs.
There are challenges with it. You simply cannot attract people with the kinds of specialties with the kind of money they want.... If you're a very qualified psychiatrist with much experience in the field and much credibility, most of the time you want to ply your trade in downtown Toronto or Vancouver or elsewhere, and very few of those are willing to come permanently to a place like Petawawa, despite the great charms of Petawawa. So we come at it from a variety of other ways, and that's what we're working to do. Our absolute goal is one high standard health care system in the Canadian Forces that treats everybody with that same high standard.