Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to go to the issue of post-traumatic stress syndrome, which you mentioned earlier.
I was on another committee not too long ago in our Parliament that was studying this issue. General Dallaire, who was in Rwanda, has been very open about this issue and is an advocate. He was talking about the need for early intervention in this area, but also the need to recognize that the onset can be later, in some cases seven or eight years after the fact. Most of the soldiers who need help don't go on the base or anywhere near where they might be seen by others, because there's a stigma attached to it. It's considered a mental weakness and so on.
He was recommending that programs be offered off the base, where there's more of a civilian population, and that mental health experts or psychiatrists who work with other paramilitary types of organizations, like the police, could be identified because they would have a better understanding of what these people would have gone through. These are the kinds of things he was talking about.
I wonder if you've had similar experiences and to what extent you've put in place any specific mechanisms that we might be able to look at to address some of these things.