Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses for being here today, and for representing your organizations and the people within your groups.
I'll start with the corrections officers. When I've talked about operational stress injuries, I often use the term “uniformed service” because I think it was always expansive, and took into consideration a variety of different roles that put people in an operation that has stress and trauma as part of the nature of service.
I've often had the sense, in speaking with corrections workers, and I certainly got the sense from your presentation, that the correctional officers have felt like the forgotten cousin of the uniformed service ranks. We've seen the leadership, including what the chief outlined today, some of the things the big 15 police forces and fire forces are doing, the road to mental readiness training, these sorts of things. Do you find as a branch of uniformed service that corrections officers are behind where others are in terms of tools and training and the ability to combat and build resiliency?