We have started a study of the care provided to reservists for PTSD because we realized that reservists have brought about a 20% increase in the number of soldiers on operations. When they are on operations with members of the Regular Forces, they are employed under a Class C contract. They receive the same benefits as their colleagues, but when they return to Canada, if they are finished, they return to their unit and they are then in a Class A employment category. If PTSD emerges two years later, they will be civilians somewhere in the landscape, and they will be suffering. All that has to be analyzed.
On March 20th, 2013. See this statement in context.