It's one of my top priorities, and one of the four that I spoke about. Mental health, in particular, is one that we've really made great strides in. Operational stress injuries and the Canadian approach have been recognized by some of our biggest allies. They're coming to us to see how we've done it.
It's not perfect, and we know that. The ombudsman and the Auditor General have provided us with input that shows we have to get better. By and large, the joint personnel support units have stood up across the nation. They provide a one-stop shop, where in the old days you would have to travel to various sites to find support for whatever ailed...or whatever you returned from theatre with in any sort of injury. Now it all comes in the form of one case manager at a joint personnel support unit. These are tremendous steps forward.
I think one of the most heartening things, and one of the things that will remain one of my top priorities, is our ability to decrease the stigma attached to mental health. When our members recognize that early treatment comes without any sort of stigma and leads to early recovery and a return to full combat-ready status, we're finding that the success rates are far greater. We're seeing the return on those investments, and those investments have been considerably more in recent years than we've had in the past.
We hadn't been used to OSIs in the numbers that we're seeing now. Even though we're out of combat now, and have been for a year, we're not finding that OSI numbers, operational stress injury numbers, are coming down yet. This is something we're coming to understand, that these things continue to manifest themselves long after our soldiers, sailors, and airmen and airwomen have returned from the places that have put this stress on them.