Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for being here, and thank you for your service. We appreciate the information you can bring to this committee, because we are grappling with recommendations and we want them to be the very best.
In listening to all this, it has occurred to me that your objective is to make sure that the men and women who are serving in the Canadian Armed Forces are supported in every way possible and are as healthy as they can be. Obviously, the strength of the Forces and of the nation depends on those individuals.
With that in mind, I'm wondering about something. In the presentation, you said that in terms of mental health providers, 93% of the available positions were filled by July 2016. This seems to be in conflict with some of the things we've heard here—that there were personnel members who knew they were in trouble but who couldn't get the help quickly enough. They had to wait six months, or sometimes more, on a waiting list, because the help wasn't there. Has that changed, or is there still a problem? Do we need that extra 7%?
You said there were challenges in recruiting personnel to some locations. Are those remote locations, the far north? Exactly where would that—