We operationalize a large research contract for National Defence and Veterans Affairs and the Minister of Veterans Affairs recently contracted us to pull together a pan-Canadian research team to look at the issue of service dogs, what we know, and what would be the way forward for Canada.
That report was just released to the minister's staff yesterday. In short, there isn't a robust body of literature about service dogs as compared to companion animals. However, there is some very great merit in moving forward with research in that area and in particular, in researching the people who currently reside in Canada and have psychiatric service dogs.