An organization like ours that works on transition issues and grassroots support recognizes right away that there is a need for ongoing research. Research is not as sexy as the other programs that we do. It's much harder because it takes so much longer to see fruition and results from the results of that work. It's hard to get people excited about research. It's one of the big challenges and we knew that.
One of the reasons that we funded our 10-year commitment to CIMVHR was that we recognized that when the shift focuses away from active missions overseas and people begin to lose some of that corporate knowledge—and it's very easy to forget all those lessons—we need to be training the next generation of caregivers so that the next time Canada is in conflict, those lessons don't have to be relearned. As for sharing best practices, I know when CIMVHR has its forum, that's one of the things they do. They bring various researchers together to present and work together. The academic community is fairly good at sharing information, sometimes better than other communities.