Veterans Affairs committee  We've done a lot of work in the past five to eight years to work more closely with our colleagues in the Canadian Armed Forces. In fact, I kept an office in the CF health services headquarters, to have direct access to my colleagues there. Very often we have informal discussions as well as participating in formal working groups.

Veterans Affairs committee  I will. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would say that we have changed a lot of our decision-making algorithms to the point at which—tinnitus was mentioned—the rate of approval is so high that you would consider it to be presumptive. My understanding is that there is some legalese around that, which I don't understand—things about regulations, acts and things like that, and I would not be the person to answer that, but PTSD, tinnitus, hearing loss and cumulative joint injury are all things that are at very high approval rates.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. The sexual misconduct support and resource centre is the lead for all matters of military sexual trauma. We work in collaboration with them, and so does Atlas.

Veterans Affairs committee  This is not just an issue for veterans. There's a prevalence of PTSD in the Canadian population. Certainly a psychiatrist would be better positioned to answer this. All drugs have side effects and would be taken into consideration.

Veterans Affairs committee  Several people from the department were involved in that. There's a seamless transition working group—

Veterans Affairs committee  We'll have to get back to you on that, because the rehab program is under another division. I can get you that information.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I can.

Veterans Affairs committee  The CAF transition group has...I don't want to say beefed up.... They've always had transition centres. They were called joint personnel support units. They're now evolving to transition centres, where everybody works under the same roof. Every service member must have an interview before release, whether they're medically released or not.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not in those centres. I'm not a hundred per cent familiar with the process, but I think veteran service agents are perfectly well suited to provide those interviews to veterans at the time of transition.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry. I missed the first part of the question.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. I want to preface by saying that I'm not a researcher. We rely heavily on our research colleagues to provide information. I find that they provide a lot of excellent information. We learn so much about the experience of veterans around transition especially, but there are some gaps.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. Our colleagues in research and the people at research institutes work in partnership. The information flows back and forth. I think there's a high level of co‑operation. That's why the centre of excellence was set up. The idea was to foster connections within the community in order to access as much information as possible.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. My division doesn't receive the claims. My colleague Trudie MacKinnon's does, so, once again, I'm going to have to pass the question over to her. She will have more information on that.

Veterans Affairs committee  If you would allow it, Mr. Chair, I will defer to my colleague, Trudie, because this is work that is being done in her division.