There are two parts to that. One is that there is a lot of activity across the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs to close that seam, to improve that handover, to give that warm handshake. That's a very active initiative, with a lot of different invested parties within government working hard to make that happen. I'm not saying that it's there yet, but there's a lot of activity around that.
On the other end of it, when you have people who are leaving the military because they already have an identified mental health issue, and they are having a medical release as a result of this mental health issue, often we know where they are in that first two years. They get connected directly in with Veterans Affairs, with the joint personnel support units. We know where those go.
In fact the people who have the mental issues, who are identified prior to releasing service, may not be the ones we are most worried about. It may be the people who are releasing because they have a mental health issue that hasn't been identified and they aren't ready to address it. They may elect to leave service and try to manage it on their own, and they decompensate over that release period of the first two years. They may go out into nothing. They are not obligated to register with Veterans Affairs Canada, so they may not have a link in where Veterans Affairs can even provide them services, and the services may not be related to their military service, their issues.
It's complicated on that end. We do have concern that we're missing a number of people moving through the system who aren't already identified or whose issues emerge after release. A longitudinal study will hopefully give us more information about some of those patterns of trajectories as people move through the release period.