There is energy. In my job on the Quebec compensation board we do have education. I'm like a judge there and I listen to what his doctor says and the force, the Sûreté du Québec.... We have an educational training of about two years. But this is unofficial. I haven't seen any special police or military post-traumatic stress disorder education program specifically. I know there are four clinics, but how much communication of data?
As you know, the weakness is, as Dr. Brillon said...and on this I've built up my own statistics. Unfortunately, you can read all the books you want, but there are facts. We've sent 2,000 members, and we know how many have developed PTSD at the end of the day. Is it good or not? Do I have enough or not? I don't know, but that's what I can say.
At the end of the day, I compare my numbers with the normal force working in Canada. The big challenge we had...and as you know, we don't have a union with the RCMP, but a member rep said the mission is costing a fortune. We said, no, they're not sicker than you, etc. At the end of the day, that was the rationale for building up these statistics. So at the end of the day, because of rigorous screening, these members were not sicker, etc.
To answer your question, I was a member of the Quebec Association of Occupational Physicians, and we didn't have a special forum for that. It's a subject of discussion continuously. But should there be one with the force? Yes, because there are a lot of professionals--psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational physicians.
Funnily enough, we had one for pain, for all the chronic pain. We had a meeting with the judges and all the doctors, because for pain they all use narcotics. We don't like narcotics because there's a lot of dependency. I saw a forum for that, but not for PTSD specifically.