From what I can see, they don't do a psychological profile. However, when the RCMP deployed its 2,000 members, it did do a psychological profile of them. We did a psychological assessment and post-trauma debriefing to get a clear understanding of how these people experience stress. That was useful because our numbers were ultimately equivalent to those for the regular police population. We made a presentation to this Committee with the Department of National Defence.
They would need to do a psychological assessment using personality and stress-reaction tests. Those tests are valid in 80 per cent of cases. The danger, however, is that they might not want to screen people out. As soon as a test reveals something abnormal, a psychological interview is arranged to confirm the validity of the information.
Unfortunately, in some cases, we have to refuse to deploy some soldiers on missions involving too high a stress level, such as in Afghanistan, for example. People that participate in those missions have to be able to react positively to stress. Also, we are looking for resilient personalities. This is not something hypothetical. Increasingly, we can glean information from psychological tests or through a post-trauma debriefing. In other words, everybody has experienced stress in the course of his or her life. The question is how people reacted to it. Did they react positively and become stronger, or did it crush them? These personalities do exist, and that is what is needed for these kinds of missions.