There definitely has been a change, I would say, over the last four or five years. We've just signed a memorandum with VAC. It's called the operational stress injury network, and what we're trying to do is work closely on a network of clinics right across the country. VAC has opened up five more OSI clinics, and we have our five. We're trying to cover off the whole country and have equal access to each other's clinics.
This is a work in progress, and there are going to be all kinds of things we have to work on, like priority access and clinical procedures of assessment—whether we agree, and who should get assessed at which clinic. But it's definitely a work in progress. We meet regularly with VAC—I'm meeting with a group from Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue this Friday—and we talk about these issues.
We're going to set up an advisory committee to meet every three months to advise the steering committee that meets in Charlottetown, and DND and VAC are represented there. But it's a close network.
We've also included the RCMP in that operational stress injury network. They're the other organization that uses the VAC services as well, and they're out there with similar injuries as our own soldiers'.
I'd say the relationship is good. It's a work in progress, and we meet regularly.