In your remarks to us earlier, you said that you're actively cultivating contact with U.S. counterparts on these issues. There was a report from the Institute of Medicine, a body in the U.S., commissioned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It came out, I think, a few months ago, in mid-December of last year. It said that traumatic brain injuries have become the signature wound of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and that troops who sustain them face a daunting array of potential medical consequences later on.
This body, the Institute of Medicine, said that military personnel who sustained even moderate brain injuries may go on to develop Alzheimer's, dementia, symptoms similar to Parkinson's, a higher risk of seizure disorders, and psychosis. It said that people with even mild brain injuries are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder.
In the 2002 study there was a mental health survey done, which was a follow-up. The ombudsman reports now that the information is very dated. Again, that information is seven years old. It was before we were in a combat situation in Afghanistan.
Will the department be conducting our own new study? The numbers you reported earlier were reflections of volunteer participation and were not from a medical, scientific study. So will there be a new study, as the ombudsman recommends, of the mental health situation of the Canadian Forces in light of what has now, I guess, been eight years of combat in Afghanistan?