In terms of our mental health clients, or clients who suffer from mental illness or PTSD, depression, or anxiety, I have to add--again, I've been working with the department for quite a number of years--I have seen the old system. I have seen our mental health clients struggle. I have seen them focus solely on compensation and I have seen a system like that really promotes illness.
What I'm seeing in the new Veterans Charter, in terms of the programs it offers, it offers hope to these individuals. I don't know if you can put a price tag on that, but it gets them to look positively at the future in terms of employment, which we could not do before with the old system. It also allows us to treat these people more holistically.
I don't know if you've seen the statistics, but we have over a thousand clients who have served in Afghanistan, who have mental health conditions, not necessarily related to Afghanistan but they've had multiple deployments. Fifty percent of these people are still serving. We have not seen anything, I don't think, compared to what we are going to be seeing coming to us in the future, perhaps after 2011.
I'm glad we have the new Veterans Charter programs in place to deal with that. If we did not, I don't know what we would be dealing with today.