I don't know if the committee is aware of the Military Family Resource Centres at DND. It's not a VAC thing. Where a family is taking advantage of an MFRC, and I think there are 34 of them across the country and overseas, once the individual is released then his or her family--I almost used the word “dependants”, which is not a term you are allowed to use any more--would have to leave the MFRC.
So it may involve VAC, in that one of the recommendations we put forward was there could be a mechanism in place to have them continue, if required, to facilitate or have access to the MFRCs.
The MFRCs are in some ways autonomous from the chain of command locally, but General Semianiw's initiative a couple of years ago brought them together, meaning--and I don't speak for DND, but I've listened to him explain--you shall implement these programs in each one of your MFRCs and here is the funding to do it. Each MFRC of course does its own fundraising to take care of other issues, but in this case he dictated that certain elements of this matrix--if you want to use that term--were imposed from NDHQ. It's not a question of Big Brother watching; there was a disparity between the poor MFRC and the rich ones primarily in some of the more affluent provinces. I won't mention Alberta because I live in Calgary but they've got a very rich MFRC because they've got a lot of corporate backing. But compared to some of the others they don't have the money; Semianiw's choice sorted that out.