Veterans Affairs has actually done, I think, quite a bit of work in that regard. I suffered two physical injuries while I was in. I'm a client of Veterans Affairs, and I'm under the old Pension Act. When the new veterans charter came in, they made some improvements around programming that was more accessible to veterans and might have benefited my colleagues on this call around education and things like that, and then actually counselling around education, which was great too.
Another thing they've done recently that I think is very important as well is that if a veteran is a seriously injured veteran and can't use the benefits, those are available for their family, which benefits predominantly women generally, I'd say, because we still see that 86% of the people serving in the military are men.
I believe there has been some progress made with Veterans Affairs. With National Defence it's a tougher call. It's a male-dominated area.
I had two friends who taught SHARP training. That was the original sexual harassment and racism prevention training back in the late eighties and early nineties. They are very traumatized from that, from how they were treated. I'm not sure.... You have to educate people. I don't know how you do a better job of it. We still see examples all the time of people misbehaving and the culture not changing, so I'm afraid that I don't have a great solution for the military, though I do think about it a lot.
I do think that Veterans Affairs has made some progress.