Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I do thank Colleen and Wendy for propping this up. I really appreciate your intervention in this, because we're dealing with the issue of operational stress injuries and also post-traumatic stress disorder on veterans and their families in the defence world, to see whether if this were corrected it would mitigate some of the concerns when they get out of the military. You are right. When they leave the military, after retiring, if they have something else to go to, another job or something, the transfer is not bad. But if they're medically released out of the military, or, as they said in today's article in the The London Free Press, if you are abandoned, as some members feel, that hurts, and it also hurts the family.
Wendy, you deal with a lot of adult situations. I met a lady up in Comox a while back. She had just finished a divorce from her husband who was in the service, and she said that one of the things she feared was no longer having access to the military family resource centre, because while it wasn't a crutch for her, it was her sole support system when her buddy was off for a long time. In my understanding, he is now getting out of the military, and because of those issues she figures he's going to have some concerns regarding the family, which will put additional stress on him, let alone the stress on her.
You said earlier that you don't look after people released or no longer associated, but what about divorced families?