Thank you.
I'd actually like to pick up from where Ms. Lambropoulos was going in terms of mental health conversations and the discussions there.
One of my concerns is that I had filed an Order Paper question, and it started to break down psychiatrists, psychologists, medical professionals, doctors, social workers, mental health nurses and addiction counsellors. In fact, those services are being provided by Calian, which is a for-profit corporation. It is filling 91% of psychiatrist positions on the base and 34% of total health care providers.
These bases don't have a single in-house public servant or medical professional dedicated to those mental health services. When you talk about those programs being offered, it's from that for-profit company. It's not by specific individuals who are consistently there and are seeing patients regularly. It's through these online services or what have you. Ultimately, those for-profit companies will do it for profit as their sole first purpose.
Mr. Matthews, you talked about looking at the interesting idea of bringing back those services in-house. It's been pushed a great deal by the unions involved, and certainly it's of key concern to what's going on in the mental health status of CAF and DND.
Could you comment further on what is preventing you from actually moving forward?