Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Earlier we had talked about the aspect of where we would find the future psychologists to help our aged and our veterans. You had mentioned war-torn experiences and the military aura that is around it, I think you succinctly stated, because of the remembrance, things such as veterans week and everything else, and the pride they have in their medals and people thanking them.
The nice thing in Canada over the last bunch of years is that there has been a new, growing awareness of our veterans. I think one of the reasons for that is probably because so many World War II and Korean veterans are getting older and the fact that we lose an awful lot of them every day because of old age or sickness.
For people training to be psychologists, especially when it comes to veterans and their families, would you recommend that they have not necessarily military experience, but an embedded experience with the military when they go not just to Afghanistan, but to Haiti, to Bosnia, or wherever they go in the world, so that they themselves can experience at a younger age some of the concerns these men and women will face 20 or 40 years down the road?
The reason I say that is in the study of PTSD we found that PTSD can strike you right away or it can afflict you years down the road. When they're going to people at OSI centres and such and talking to them, we've found that the people who were talking back should have a clear understanding of what it was like for them in that regard.
Would you make that recommendation, if the government were to fund that type of activity, to assist people training to be psychologists for specifically the military, veterans and their families, that they have an embedded experience in that regard?