Yes, on the staffing, again, I will commit to providing the numbers on specific staffing. When I last checked, about 90% of all of our positions were filled. That has been a sort of a steady state for the last few years. A lot of it is due to normal attrition. Often we have challenges when a lot of the civilian clinicians who work are spouses of military members who get posted and moved around, which becomes part of the issue.
Mental health professionals are also in high demand. Our ratio of mental health providers to service members is one of the highest in NATO, so we are sort of lucky to be well resourced in those ways.
Wait-lists are something that we're always tracking. We're always looking for more efficiencies. The way we address it is that we have a regular receipt of wait-lists. We have our benchmarks. It's difficult, because there aren't really good civilian benchmarks for wait-lists for mental health, as opposed to knee and hip surgeries and things like that, but if people are outside of our guidelines, we work with the base to identify the reasons and the solutions that we do have, which I'm hoping.... I mean, a silver lining from COVID is the increased comfort with and use of telepsychiatry and telemedicine, because certainly a more distressed base can have access from other bases.
There's a good use of this in the triangle between Esquimalt, Vancouver and Comox, those three, a triangle in B.C. where having psychiatry or psychology reach out to the other bases and avoid travelling.... We're hoping for one like that to sort of even the playing field because, as you know, we have bases in very isolated places and we have bases like Halifax, which is within walking distance from a university centre.
It's an ongoing thing, with ongoing tracking and an ongoing challenge. We're far from crisis mode right now. We're in a steady state. We could always strive to be better, though. I'll give you the specific numbers in terms of HR.