The military. The Canadian Forces only follows those currently serving in the armed forces.
Because a lot of the stresses that may lead to suicide are cumulative and can manifest in mental health conditions and subsequently suicidal behaviour years after release from the armed forces or years after the stresses have occurred, we would lose track of them. For that reason, we did this study with Veterans Affairs Canada, including, of that 188,000, 112,000 people who had released from the armed forces in the past.
It found that so far, the first part of it, looking at mortality, causes of death, for all causes of death armed forces members and veterans had a 35% lower rate of death from all causes than the general public.
However, there were two abnormalities. One was a 2.6% higher rate of death by aircraft accident, and that's accounted for probably by virtue of the fact that proportionately our population has a much higher number of aircrew, people flying. Also, suicide overall was the same as the civilian rate. But there was a 1.5 times increased rate among those who had been released who were in the 16 to 44 age group who had been released after serving less than 10 years and before 1986, so before all the mental health programs, education, screening, etc., programs that we now have in place existed.