Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses.
I come from an RCMP background, and I thank my colleague for bringing up the RCMP background. I spent eighteen years in the RCMP. My fellow RCMP officers and I have had to deal with the situation and circumstances of traumatic situations and have had to go home on a regular basis without having any outlet to decompress, or basically an outlet to talk.
I wasn't aware that the RCMP had access to this specific OSISS program. I was a detachment commander, and I see some benefit, from your appearing before this committee today, in your going out and preaching more about the successes of this program. What I see, coming from my background, as you do from yours, is the place of intervention models. There's a role that a detachment commander has to play, if we see a situation in which a member needs to seek counseling or needs to be spoken to in order to seek proper medical help.
From the peers and subordinates, what follow-up and tools are in place to measure the success of your program? Also, do the clients have access to self-evaluation?
I'm also curious about the peer supporters. I realize how post-traumatic stress can trigger emotions from the peer supporters when speaking with the clients. What mechanisms are there for the peer supporters as well?