I agree absolutely. We go further than that, however. We've approached the Royal Society; we hit a brick wall on that. But it's important for the entire spectrum of health care providers to understand mental health issues.
I'm outside the veterans side of things now, but we've moved back also to trying to get the medical educational community, particularly at universities, to understand doctors and to get new doctors trained in mental health, just as they're trained in cardiovascular and other issues. Unfortunately, up until very recently they spent hours on cardiovascular issues or on cancer and maybe half an hour or two hours on mental health issues.
As I'm sure you all know by now, mental health issues are comorbid with cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, PTSD—you name it. Depression particularly is almost always present in all those chronic illnesses.
We would be entirely supportive, but it's a major project, because we have these historical silos. We have organizations that insist, and this is true in Health Canada and in Ontario Health as well, that, “We've always done it this way. For years we've done it this way, and this is the way we're going to do it.” We have to beat our heads: we continue to do that.
We support it. That's the short answer.