Thank you, Colonel Jardine.
I would just say that some of the work we've done in terms of the impact of transition on our [Technical difficulty—Editor] we did a qualitative study about two years ago on transition that showed that the family, and particularly the spouses, are the most important factor in a successful transition of a military member from military life to the civilian life.
We're going to be looking at the caregiver recognition benefit. We've started to look at it and we'll be looking at things such as access and qualifications for access. It seems, and it shouldn't be any shock given the percentage of male Canadian Forces members versus female, that the largest proportion of caregivers tend to be female. We'll be looking at this through a GBA+ lens as well, looking at how it impacts single female veterans, looking at who the caregivers are, who the family members are and whether that is different in different forms. For example, is the indigenous definition of family a bit broader? How are indigenous veterans and their caregivers impacted? We'll be looking at the impact. We'll be looking at the needs of the veterans and we'll also be looking at the quantity of the benefit. Is the caregiver recognition benefit really sufficient? Is it really compensation or is it token recognition while the care is foisted onto the partners? Is it the caregiver's responsibility as opposed to the government's? We'll be looking at those things and we look forward to talking to the committee about that once we've completed that work.
I think MP Blaney had asked about military sexual trauma, MST, earlier, and we're also looking at access to individual counselling for survivors of military sexual trauma and what resources are being provided to veterans.