I'll attempt to answer part of your question. You spoke about palliative care a moment ago, a subject that is dear to most of us. Yes, our nation has not spent a whole bunch of money and resources on enhancing palliative care across Canada. We have focused on other things.
The past practices of Veterans Affairs, when it was a much larger organization with many more facilities at its fingertips, was to publish in newspapers and other media that a Veterans Affairs counsel or staff would arrive in Lac La Biche, for example, and would be there on certain dates between assigned hours, and that if you had needs you should go to see that person. That's what I meant in my presentation.
However, the construct of Canada in the rural sense is such that entities like the Royal Canadian Legion exist in some 1,500 branches across Canada in remote villages and towns, but also organizations like ours and the others that presented to you today and before also have the types of service officers who can certainly counsel and reach out to veterans. The biggest issue is for the veteran to reach out and to know where to reach out to, and my suggestion is the same as I made a moment ago. Put it in the media, because veterans see what's on television, veterans hear what's on the radio, and veterans read. Knowing where to reach out to, the second part of the equation, would happen if the resources were there.