I believe we're headed in the right direction now, because they put together the joint personal support units that are in fact a team of Veterans Affairs Canada personnel and military personnel who actually help people transition.
Although you say that today you're in the forces and tomorrow you're not, if you're being medically released from the forces, now it's about a three-year transition before you're actually out of the forces.
I go back to what I said before. If you have very good communications and very good information as to what could be expected the day you step out, then it would certainly help the transition. I'm not sure that this is of the quality that it should be right now. People need to know exactly what they have access to. In fact, the new Veterans Charter is not very well known by a lot of people and certainly not by serving members, because when you're in the service.... I did 39 years and I didn't think about retirement until one day somebody said, “Whoa. You're out”, and that was it. I was a SAR tech, and it didn't bother me too much.
What's important is that if people know and they have the information, then the expectations are reasonable and people can transition. Partnership, communications, knowing what to expect, and having a clear idea that there are more opportunities on the other side than there are opportunities lost are the things, I think, that are really important.