There are a couple of things. One, the member and the ombudsperson are quite correct: Legislative authority does not exist for us to provide those services in their own right to family members. There are a number of other services that are available for families, such as the VAC assistance service, which can be used by any family member who's facing a mental health issue or crisis. That can give them 20 sessions with a mental health provider and can be used at any time. There's the veteran family program through military family resource centres. All of those are correct.
I can't speak to proposals that have gone forward as recommendations to the government. I can tell you that there are a lot of ways we continue to help support families, in addition to what you said. There are considerations in all circumstances when a family may be impacted by something like suicide, where we continue to help support that family as best as we can with access to resources.
