Certainly, I am familiar.
For the committee's background, I used to work in the United States on this subject. I was involved some time ago with that. The origin of that—it's a piece of information that the committee might like to consider, and I would be pleased to forward a link afterwards if helpful—came from a report, I think it was in 2009. It was called the “All Volunteer Force" report, by Civic Enterprises. It identified that volunteering and service opportunities can be one of the most successful ways of supporting veterans transition.
The Americans embraced that and built out The Mission Continues, which became a campaign—as well as a not-for-profit organization at the centre of it—to help provide volunteering and service opportunities for American veterans and their families. Across the seven domains of well-being, it was a way of making sure that those different ecological and psychological benefits to the veteran were being met.
It's a conversation that we've been endeavouring to push forward with Veterans Affairs and others in Canada. I think that a focus on volunteering and service will help not only the long-term mental health of our veterans, but also their willingness to remain in different corporate roles that may not give them that same sense of purpose but do give them economic security.