Thank you, Chair.
First of all, I believe we're going to have to have these witnesses back. We have six witnesses and we've got 40 minutes perhaps to question them. But thank you for your presentation and your information. We know you're doing a lot. Our concern is, are the needs of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and women, as well as of our veterans, being met?
First of all, General Millar, last week retired Sergeant Ronald Anderson sadly took his own life. He was 11 months out of the service; he was a veteran with 21 years of service, including seven overseas deployments, two in Afghanistan. Yet according to our information, he would not be included in your suicide statistics, nor would women or reservists.
This committee asked the government and the department to follow all soldiers for five years post-deployment in order to ensure that their mental health needs were being met. How can we really think we have a good picture of what's going on with your suicide statistics the way they are?