Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for coming to our committee.
Ms. Pellerin, you made an affirmation in your presentation, which we have also noticed, that many modern-day veterans are being released from service with more complex health and re-establishment needs. I would like it if you could elaborate on this.
That will lead to a question to Colonel Bernier related to the Canadian Forces health services, the national case management program. In your presentation you made a statement that you have 57 case managers and that the mental health program accounts for a large portion of the case management workload and contributes enormously to the case complexity.
I would like to ask you about the prevention of substance abuse in the Canadian armed forces. When I was deployed in Afghanistan, more than a hundred soldiers were found positive for substance abuse and were not deployed. That created a big problem for our forces.
Those are the two questions I would like to ask for the moment.