With the new defence policy—“Strong, Secure, Engaged”—there's a big initiative to have a total health and wellness strategy, which is a comprehensive approach to looking at health in all the dimensions that you have stated. It is very encouraging to see how the leadership of the department and the Canadian Armed Forces are taking extremely seriously how we can improve to have better care and support.
For us in the chaplaincy, it's very interesting to see that not only is there a focus on physical health but there's much more awareness now about the complexity of the issues of mental health, and a holistic approach is also developing. Again, I want to say thanks for the research.
What do we mean by the spiritual dimension in this?
It's going to take time to go there, but there's really serious investment being made to improve and to be more proactive not only in the assessment but also in prevention and promotion in order to have better care and support.