Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank you both for coming and sharing these painful stories. Both of your children are lucky to have such dedicated and, dare I say, fierce advocates.
I want to start off with this issue of diagnosis. Mr. Woolvett, you referred to it. You said they were told the diagnosis was not PTSD but alcoholism.
I may use the “D”, Ms. Allison, because that's in the literature and all that, but the diagnosis is pretty important. I had someone suggest to me the other day that this happens a lot in the military, and that perhaps there should be a default diagnosis of PTSD if someone is exhibiting symptoms.
I saw a film on CPAC the other night called Homecoming, in which the former Chief of the Defence Staff referred to his own symptoms of PTSD. But there's a disconnect between that kind of high-level comment and the stories you're telling us today.
What do you say about that, Mr. Woolvett?
What about the case with your daughter, Ms. Allison? Was there a diagnosis given early, or was there one at all?