I have a series of things you may want to consider.
Part of it is looking at how we make available standardized awareness training for people to eliminate the stigma and to allow people to come forward and freely engage the supervisors. We also want to look at how we prepare managers to deal with situations of staff coming forward. These are very difficult situations for managers to deal with. How do we prepare managers to deal with those types of situations?
There is also support for family members. Through our road to mental readiness training, not only are we looking at staff and managers but we will, in our second and third phase of our initiative, also look at how we provide assistance to family members.
Regarding the issue of standardized accessible treatment, we're talking about everybody, and not just certain categories of first responders. It needs to be standard across the country. We can't differentiate between the military, the RCMP, corrections, paramedics, or whatever the case may be. There needs to be a standard approach and proper funding to support that.
We need to find a way through provincial WCB bodies to help people navigate through the system when they come forward. One of the most significant challenges we find is that people do not come forward.
We're talking a lot now about the statistics of individuals who come forward. We're not talking about the silent majority who do not forward because the system is very complicated. WCB processes are so complicated that within our own organization, we have to dedicate individuals to help people try to navigate through a system that we do not manage.
Thinking about those kinds of things will go a long way.