I will be sharing my time with Mr. Vincent.
My message is to everyone. I would like to address the issue of mental health problems Mr. Maguire talked about. I am sure that you, the psychologists, will agree with me. The situation has improved over the years. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, there were many taboos and prejudices around mental health. As you pointed out, Mr. Maguire, whatever the problem was, the tendency was to tell someone with a problem to go get some rest and take a sleeping pill. I feel our society has made progress. You have been following this issue very closely, just like Mr. Whelan and Mr. Cann. Could you tell me what improvements have been made to treat PTSD? Has there been an improvement? I can only imagine how things were in the 70s and 80s. My father was in World War II and retired in 1955. I always said that he had PTSD but he lived with it. That's the way it was: you would get out of war and leave. Have there been improvements?
What you are saying is important. The screening does not take place. But, over the years, we have still managed to develop tools for detecting PTSD in those at risk. Given the high percentage of people with PTSD, should we not invest more in the screening process and make it almost mandatory? As you said so well, Mr. Maguire, the sooner we treat people and establish they have PTSD, the sooner we will be able to reduce the future impacts of this problem. That's my question.