I've often felt, when I'm talking to VAC trying to represent myself and soldiers, that you are really talking about a foreign country in terms of the constituency you represent. I feel that there are courseware and educational opportunities that would communicate what this regiment of Canadians—some of our best heart's blood—is really like.
This incident we're talking about today is really reprehensible and concerning. You can sense, in the wider community that I've dealt with at VAC on the phone, that there's an essential goodness and a willingness to help. There is such a gap between the world that these men and women know, such as soldiers, sailors, airmen and airwomen, and what a caseworker knows. If we could just bridge that....
When you get to know us, it's easier to support us. It's easier to imagine how hard it is for some of our servicemen and women who serve in other roles to have that jacket and tie on, or how hard it is just trying to make it through the day without a drink or without harming themselves.