I think there are two things or two competing problems we see at Wounded Warriors Canada. On the one hand, you have the frustration when you're talking to someone who has graduated from one of our programs and you talk to them about their injury.... Here, I just want to add to the general's comments that the vast majority of injuries—when they're comfortable to tell us when they occurred in their mind—happened through an interaction with children in some way, shape, or form.
Second, it commonly took them eight to 10 years after that injury, or the action that caused the injury, before they sought or receive the help they deserved. You can imagine a life like that, the impact on the family of those eight to 10 years before they attempted to deal with their injury.
On the other side of that, a further problem we see after we write about their need to come to get help, to self-identify, to reach out peer to peer, is that because it's a much more commonly understood topic to be discussed and more people are more comfortable coming to get help to address it, we are receiving more and more people seeking help. The problem now is if they do come forward, programs like ours now have wait lists of up to two years. We have a severe access problem in Canada. That is one thing and it's very nice and all well and good if they come forward to seek help, but when they don't get it, you can imagine what that can do to their mental state and overall health care and the impact on their families.
There's a lot at play here and it's extremely serious.