Do we currently have any mental health providers on base in Petawawa?
The reason I ask is that a number of years ago, this committee travelled to Base Petawawa in the dying days of the Afghanistan conflict. We visited the mental health centre. I drove there, but the rest of the committee took a bus. They were held up for over an hour and half by a general who was giving them a briefing before the bus even left. Subsequent to that meeting, we learned that while they were being detained in Ottawa, the people at the centre for mental health on the base were scrambling to find people to make it look like the offices were actually occupied.
That's why I'm concerned right now that we have psychologists or psychiatrists on hand, or do our people get loaded into buses and sent to Ottawa for their treatment?