Mr. Chair, I will answer the more specific questions, because these are the issues that I am dealing with now, whereas the report was published in 2008.
To answer your question, I would say that our office is currently reviewing complaints. What you alluded to is something that I felt when I visited certain military bases.
First of all, although the department did launch an awareness campaign in 2009, the stigmatization still exists.
I meet young mothers who confide in me and tell me that their husband would never want them to say that they are ill, because they would never want to come out and explain the problem. When these people are sick, their first respondent, their first service provider, is the family. The wife and children look after the spouse—or the husband looks after his spouse. This is a tremendous burden for the actual families.
Right now we have families who have not yet grieved
--they have no closure yet--
for their spouse or their son. Some of them, as you mentioned, committed suicide.
We are asking people to come to our office about these things. So if you are aware of any... We are continuing to monitor some of these families closely. I am corresponding with the minister on these files.
So that is one thing that exists. Despite the stigmatization, young people, as you correctly said, are not going to confess to having any weakness, because they have the warrior spirit.
Families suffer a great deal as a result. After an operational deployment, if families need help, whether it be the closest family member, the mother, father or spouse, we bring them together for a debriefing. At that time, we tell the family what indicators to observe in their injured family member.