My comment is similar to what Betty was saying. The only official veterans' hospital is Sainte-Anne. However, that does not prevent us from visiting one, two or three different public hospitals in the provinces to see whether they are providing roughly the same type of care for veterans.
We could easily do this by going to the hospital at Laval University in Sainte-Foy, and to Sainte-Anne's Hospital to compare a hospital specialized in the care of veterans with another that has beds reserved for veterans. We could go to various parts of the country, but we do not need to visit 50 hospitals. Once we have seen four or five, I think we would have a good idea.
Sainte-Anne's hospital is interesting to us, because a new wing was built there not long ago. I do not know whether the construction has been completely finished or whether it will be finished soon, but we invested several million dollars there recently.
In addition, Sainte-Anne's hospital could be involved in treating my young PTSD victims. You know how strongly I feel about this cause. The hospital has already started looking into the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. That would be a good thing to do, even though fewer than about 10 of the 460 beds are reserved for the young veterans I call “my PTSDs”. The others receive treatment in outpatient clinics and meet with psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors.
I really believe that the biggest problem we will face in the next 10 or 15 years with veterans will be dealing with those who fought in the Gulf and in Bosnia. Unfortunately, there are some veterans — and I say this with a great deal of regret and sadness — who are dying every day. Two or three of them have died of old age. However, there are young people as well, and we have to start providing the proper services for them when they come back from Afghanistan and other missions. That will be the problem we have to face in 10 years, but we are already starting to see it.