It's clear that the strategy's principle is to save lives, but what happens if we can't do that? Especially since Canada has not signed a national suicide prevention strategy agreement. How can we have a suitable strategy for the Canadian Forces when we don't even have a national one? This leaves a really big gap for all these people and there is no strategy. We don't where we're going, we don't know what we're doing, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. We hope, we think that it's being done well, but there is no one outside the Canadian Forces who can go into the field to evaluate what is currently being done and make recommendations. Do you believe that this would be one of your recommendations, that people outside the Canadian Forces be able to go and evaluate the training that is given to these young people who go into theatres of operations? I don't know too much about what training that would require because we have no idea what the training strategy or the plan is. It's easier for my conservative friends to understand the word "strategy" than the word "plan". There is no plan. We don't know what their plan is to ensure that our young people be able to return in an intellectual state similar to the one they had when they left for a theatre of operations. I would like to know your opinion on that.
On February 9th, 2011. See this statement in context.