About two years ago we established a director of rehabilitation at Canadian Forces, realizing the challenge, tying into what the associate had said, that the IED is the weapon of choice and the result of that is many men and women in uniform who actually end up losing a limb. That happens throughout the world. It is not just focused on Afghanistan.
We realized that and we established a director of rehabilitation. We then went out and partnered with seven different civilian rehabilitation centres across the country. Those centres are civilian, so we didn't have to build them; they're already there. We actually put our rehabilitation military specialists into them when soldiers come back and need them. Secondly, we provide funds, if they need it, to be able to provide that additional support when they are in there.
On the Shilo case, again, the next step was what happens when they're actually in that recovery phase. We want to use sports to enable their recovery. That's the simple logic, to go across the country now in some simple area, such as ensuring that even the lockers are big enough so that our men and women in uniform who need a little bit more space can actually go in there to do the training they need, and other areas. So yes, it is the model we are looking at to go across the country as part of our health and fitness strategy that was announced about a year and a half ago. It's all dovetailed in.
As you saw, the minister was at Soldier On, at the Paralympics, where we had a military contingent, which again speaks to our support for men and women in uniform when they go through those tough times.