So you haven't worked with our defence scientists? They have some programs and treatments that they're working on to address pre, during, and post mental stress. I think we'll be hearing from them down the road.
The issue with reservists, sometimes, is when they're finished their post-deployment leave and training and they're back with their home battalion, it's sometimes hard to track them. If they don't want to self-identify—no matter how many times I've asked them as a CO and how much the sergeant and the warrant officers in their chain of command monitor them, sometimes they try to conceal those symptoms. It's very hard, when you're a reservist and you also have a civilian component to your life, to be able to get them to do that.
Now, many of them may address and have addressed these issues on their own through the provincial and civilian systems. They try to keep it out of the military because they don't want their chain of command to understand that they've come back with an issue. That happens. People hide this sort of thing, and that's just a human dimension to a soldier.
Ms. Murray's point is well made. But through my experience, this is generally what happens with reservists when you're not able to monitor and supervise them 24 hours a day, as you can in a regular force battalion. Those are some of the differences.
Mr. Ferdinand, it sounds like you have a pretty decent relationship with Veterans Affairs. On a collaborative level, you have a lot of conversations and you're working very closely in being able to find solutions for our soldiers. Would that be a fair statement?