From my perspective, it's that return-to-work connection. The project at Valcartier clearly demonstrated that if you can reintegrate people during the time they're experiencing the OSI injury or the PTSD, if you can start and work with them right on the bases where they reintegrate at a return-to-work program, they do very well, and very often then they don't need to move into the Department of Veterans Affairs side.
So I think we need more return-to-work programs.
Let me give you another example. We have a project at the university where I work. It's called an occupational performance analysis unit. We're seeing more and more military there as well, and they're working with the base to try to reintegrate them, because when you're a soldier, you're a soldier for life. That's the image you have of yourself. So when you're rehabilitating, rather than being put in the canteen, it's really important that you begin to establish yourself in the job that you would have had before.
A good example is what we've been using in Nova Scotia where an occupational therapist worked--this is a direct service example--with a soldier who had had an injury to his shoulder, had lost most of his shoulder, and also has an OSI injury. The occupational therapist, using a wooden gun and a Wii mechanism, rebuilt the weights in the shoulder, but also there was a psychological re-engagement in what he was meant to be. The soldier did not move to the VA side. He stayed in the military. So we firmly believe that we've got to be both places, but the return to work is a very strong and very crucial part of what we need to do for our veterans, whether they're integrating into the military or whether they're moving into the return to work on the Veterans Affairs side. It's very important that those programs exist.