Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both, gentlemen, for appearing before us.
We know that much has changed in the past number of years. Things are better than they were; let's accept that. Obviously it's overdue in some cases and a necessary improvement.
We had the ombudsman before us last March, and he talked about a study that was done in 2002 by Statistics Canada. He suggested that this Stats Canada study in 2002 pegged the ideal number of mental health care providers at 447. Now, we never got to that number. That was in 2002, before the knowledge of what was going to happen in Afghanistan, with respect particularly to mental health, OSI, and PTSD. That study was supposed to be done again in 2012. I'm wondering whether you can tell us what the outcome of that review was, by comparison.
What I'm getting at is that the goal was set in 2005. They set the exact number at 447, but we've never actually gotten there in terms of mental health professionals and we have a worse outcome for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Where are we now?