First of all, there are no time limits on services that are available to veterans as it relates to the rehabilitation program.
With many of these people, and I have been to Toronto and other places across the country, and some of these people, sadly, are suffering from addiction issues. Getting them into rehabilitation programs.... The programs that we have available are, for example, retraining, where someone can get a new skill. The reality is that if they're having issues with addiction or with anger management, or if they're having issues of social adjustment, in every case the case manager sits down with the veteran and his or her partner, as the case may be, or a military friend, whoever they may want to bring to the interview, to try to set some realistic objectives for them, with a goal to getting them off the street.
I can tell you, it's a very fragile exercise. Many of these people do not trust society, and it takes a long time. I was talking with one of the caseworkers in Montreal just recently, and they had been working for eight months with a veteran to try to get the person's trust so that they could move that next step forward to be able to get the treatments they need, because before you can get into services and benefits, you really have to deal with the particular issue. As one of my caseworkers said to me at the IPSC in Gagetown, New Brunswick, we, as average Canadians, sometimes have difficulty understanding how these people live. To a homeless person, their major priority is the next meal.