We continue to look into our numbers and to research. The veteran suicide mortality study, as I said, has shown that the rates are higher. What it doesn't tell us is why. We know that male veterans are at higher risk within five years of leaving the military. For women, it's 20 years.
Because all veterans are not clients of the department, it's difficult for us to predict who's at risk, which is why we focus on programs and offering mental health services that are accessible for women at any point after they leave the military, whether they're our clients or not. For example, there's our VAC assistance line. You don't need to be a client of the department to access those services. Making our services known is very important to promote that anybody can come to the department any time after they leave the military.
