Good afternoon, Colonel. It is wonderful to hear that you provide a new form of training to help your young soldiers better understand what I call psychological wounds rather than operational stress. I consider these wounds to be the same as wounds to arms or legs, for example. If I use the words psychological wounds, I am sure that you will know what I mean.
Since this committee started its work, I have been fighting—my colleagues here can confirm that—for the Canadian army to prepare our young people as they depart for Afghanistan or some other theatre of operations. The system has only been in operation for a year and I know that that is not long enough for the statistics to be really meaningful. But I would like you to give me a rough idea.
For example, if 10% or 15% of the soldiers coming back had psychological wounds before your program was established, the program surely produced an improvement, as you said earlier. Could you give me a rough estimate, please?