It's because of the volume of clients. In the Canadian Forces, there are a fairly high number of consultations for post-traumatic stress. In the civilian environment, we do see cases of post-traumatic stress, but they're not related to military operations. The context is different, and the types of trauma involved are different. Pascale Brillon explained that there could be a variety of traumas experienced over a long period. This means that we can certainly identify trauma among police officers or firefighters, but the trauma experienced by soldiers is quite specific.
With regard to the issue of keeping abreast of knowledge, we must point out that our client volume does make it possible to acquire the needed expertise. With regard to training, however—and training is something I consider important—we do need to keep abreast of things, given that our mandate is very specific. However, we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to get training budgets, and that is disgraceful. We have a duty to keep abreast of current knowledge, and when international conferences or important events are held, we are almost down to drawing the short straw to see who gets the chance to go. It's a real problem.