Certainly.
The priorities that we established for this year really speak to several areas. The primary one, I would submit, would be the continuity of care. We're looking to ensure that as people transition from the Canadian Forces to other pursuits in their lives, there is as seamless a handshake as possible as they go from an organization that they have served for the better part of their lives, in many cases, to other pursuits.
That continuity of care—whether it be attendant care post-release, travel assistance, dental services, the spectrum of care from a health care perspective, vocational rehabilitation, or transition services—and trying to make sure that those areas are well understood from a policy and program perspective, while acknowledging that they won't ever be identical, are key aspects. Certainly from my four and a half years associated with the committee, I would submit that they're the most enduring and significant of examples.
However, we also collaborate on, as I mentioned, the exchange of electronic health records while respecting the Privacy Act. That's not always self-evident. You'd think it would be relatively easy between government departments, but for the right reasons, there are stringent regulations in place that make sure we have to do that properly.
We've collaborated extensively on the issue of mental health. That's in terms of both clinical treatment and non-clinical treatment, through the operational stress injury clinics and our own equivalent inside the forces, which are referred to as the operational trauma stress and support clinics.
I'll just mention that I was at an OSI clinic in London, Ontario, last week in the Parkwood Hospital. They're doing great work in terms of reaching out to veterans.
We do that at the strategic level, and then we follow it up and watch what happens at the tactical level. We've also had agreement in mental health in terms of common service providers.
I would close my part of this response by saying that we collaborate extensively on research as well. Mr. Hillier mentioned the life after service study and the mortality study, as well as the joint priorities that we provide to the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research.
We also, as another priority, collaborate extensively on commemoration and remembrance. I have a department of heritage and history that works for me, and Veterans Affairs has a commemoration cell. We work very closely on, but not limited to, Remembrance Week, on how we might celebrate the service of military people.