What can they do?
You have a folder with a whole bunch of handouts. These are all over the place, at all the bases and all the offices. There are TV ads, and so forth. It's a monumental communications problem. The district directors have all of the veterans associations in once a quarter—and if not, the regional directors will have them in once every five months—to spread the gospel. They go out to service clubs and to regimental associations, and so forth, to talk about Veterans Affairs. I'm saying this as someone from western Canada who has participated in all of them. I've gone to listen and have heard the same thing a couple of times. We talk about this and we're quite frank. For example, on Friday in Calgary there will be a presentation by one of the peer support coordinators, along with those from Veterans Affairs Canada.
The district director is really saying to the representatives of all the veterans associations: this is where we're coming from, and please get out there and tell the people how we can help. That didn't happen many years ago.
So the emphasis is coming from Charlottetown through the regional directors, down to the district directors, if not directly, to get out there and spread the gospel.
Mariane.