I have limited insight on this, not having been part of the organization in over a year, and things may have evolved.
What I can say is that while the annual suicide report from DND is very important, I think that because of the way our governance of the military and veterans is set up, we have a tendency to look at problems in silos, so we look at suicide in the military and then we look separately at suicide in the veterans population, whereas really it's a continuum. We talk about it from a life-course perspective, not as a question of whose responsibility it is. It's an individual who goes through different stages in their life.
I can't answer your specific question, but if we're looking at improving things more broadly, I think there has to be a look at changing the way things are done, and not dividing members into two discrete populations—those still serving and those who have been released. Really they are one and the same population with the same challenges and the same experiences, and they're just at different points in their life course.
Thank you.