I think the first one is to remove the threat of being removed from the military, immediately. That would be number one.
The other one would be having more conversations. We have the mental health first aid course now. That should be taught to the people who are serving. Their family members should be taking this. I know it's starting to get bigger and bigger, and I think it's a really good idea because people need to be able to identify and the member needs to be able to identify. Many times, we practice denial and we just say, “Wow, that was a really irrational way for me to handle that situation. That's not really like me.” When you start having more and more of those situations, where your behaviour is starting to change, that's when you start to recognize that there's something more going on. We don't always identify with it originally. We think it's just a bad day, or it's something we ate, or we didn't get much sleep. I think that increasing the communication can remove that stigma of there being a weakness factor involved.
Ultimately, the more we train and plan for future missions.... Obviously, how you perform might be a little different from how you handle returning back to Canada. After coming back from some of the places we go to, being in a first world country is really hard. You'll find that your lack of patience or lack of empathy for people, on this side of the border, truly makes it very difficult for people transitioning to come back.
I do think there is so much that can be done to try to improve it, but the first one is to remove the threat of removal from the military.