Thank you very much.
In preparing for the meeting, we get a briefing note from the Library of Parliament. As I go through that note, I see a bit of an alphabet soup of programs, services and organizations involved in the transition process. After I list them, my question is going to be this: How can you reasonably expect someone who's going through an important chapter in their life to figure all this out?
Here is the list: the service income security insurance plan; operational trauma and stress support centres; operational stress injury clinics; integrated transition plans; the second career assessment network program; integrated personnel support centres, which are now transition centres; the Veterans Affairs Canada rehabilitation program; the income replacement benefit; military family resource centres; the couples overcoming PTSD everyday program; and the education and training benefit.
I understand that all of these things, all these programs and benefits, serve a function, but it strikes me that it would be overwhelming for someone at that stage in their life to try to get their head around all of it.
How do you do that? Can you tell me what efforts are made and what your level of success is in educating people through all of those things? I realize that all of them have merit. It's just that it's a bit overwhelming.