The issue is that suicide is an important public health problem in Canada, obviously, and we're part of Canada. It's also a particularly important public health problem in the demographic that tends to form the bulk of the military, which is largely young and middle-aged men.
These things attract public attention, so they seem very salient, and it seems that every time we turn around we hear another story about another suicide. Unfortunately—I have the same feeling myself when I pick up the paper, so I don't want this to sound dismissive—it's not a reliable way to understand the magnitude of a public health problem.
We have a system where we know when people in the regular force pass away; we have a registry that keeps track of them and it captures the cause of death. Once a year we count up all the suicides, and we calculate rates every five years and report them.
It's also difficult because we're so close to the United States, where they have absolutely had a precipitous increase in the rates of suicide, specifically in the army and the marine corps. It's hard not to think that this somehow must be occurring in Canada as well, facing operational challenges and demands. That's just not what we've seen, for whatever reason.