I'll try to be brief.
Thank you very much for that question. For the last three years we have been doing what are called medical professional technical suicide reviews. Every time there's been a suicide of a CF member, we send a team of a GDMO—general duty medical officer—and a uniformed psychiatrist from away, from another base, to do a review.
I did one most recently in Petawawa. We go there and interview all the parties, including all the clinicians involved with the person. We interview the police, if it was police who found the body. We interview the family. We try to get a full picture, then we do a report back to the surgeon general. I have to tell you, suicide is a terrible thing for everybody involved, a terrible, terrible thing. But I think one of the things I didn't realize until I started doing these was the impact it has on the health care team. You're absolutely right.
It's one of the things I've been talking to my team about. Fortunately, we have not had an event like that in the last couple of years, but it really is devastating for everyone. I think it's really important to put in a mechanism of some kind of psychological first aid, the same kind of thing we would do for any kind of critical incident, for the team that was looking after that person.