Thank you for coming today and helping us understand a system that's so different from ours.
I want to get right to a couple of questions. You mentioned there was a new law brought in in 2007, and if I heard you correctly, it has to do with some of the changing realities, the new challenges we face, the many conflicts, and some different aspects. We hear this over and over again from our own forces and from other forces. We've asked questions of the Australians and the Americans. The conflicts have changed and we're facing things that we never faced before, plus we're starting to understand the mental health side. As you said before, it wasn't socially acceptable in the past, but for whatever reason, it's a new reality for us.
One of the challenges we have here is that as we try to cover off the mental health issues, we're short of health professionals. We're short inside the military; we're short in the public sector. We hear over and over again that people who need service are having to wait longer times for it. When they leave the service, there's sometimes a total break, which is not acceptable and we're trying to correct it. I'm just wondering--and if I said anything wrong about the 2007 law, correct me--what access people in the service have. When they leave the service, is there timely access to mental health services? Are there enough providers?