Veterans Affairs committee  Maybe I'll put that down in the long brief I gave you. Do you need another page?

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry, but are you asking if some veterans are receiving inappropriate therapy? That's how I understood it, sorry.

Veterans Affairs committee  I believe it might be organizational. My example is that I didn't know where I was.... No one followed me, so no one knew where I was, and no one knew where he was posted. We're posted to Kelowna, but his medical system, for him to go to get his teeth checked, is in Chilliwack, and his....

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. I'm excited to do more. I feel I have more training to let me do more than what I'm doing.

Veterans Affairs committee  Right now I have a very traditional role. As an occupational therapist, I work with safety in terms of breaking down barriers, more environmental barriers, so they're safe in their homes. They live there as long as possible, and they love Veterans Affairs because of that, but I'm thinking there's more to it, as I was mentioning.

Veterans Affairs committee  It does, pretty much. The health care team is very accommodating in giving me more hours if there's a more complex case. Without hesitation, they trust me and what I'm doing. If I say this veteran needs a little bit more time, he's having some cognitive limitations with power mobility, we can assign him a rehab assistant to train him on the new power device, for example, which is pretty complicated for someone who's 91 years old.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm going to answer the second one first. I started with Veterans Affairs in September, and I honestly can tell you that I had very little knowledge as a private practitioner to understand the system very well. And because I'm one of these crazy people, I went out and made a point of gathering as much information as possible.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, policies, vendors lists, area counsellors' numbers.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm given an excellent occupational therapy assessment through the Internet, through the web-based Internet, from Veterans Affairs. The assessment form they provide us is absolutely excellent. It covers all areas of everyday life and is very client centred. I just want to comment that, specifically on the Veterans Affairs assessment, it asks, what are the veteran's wishes and what is their perception of the problem?

Veterans Affairs committee  No, but I believe the rapport needs to be built before that. There needs to be something before they get there. What's to say it's not going to fall through? What's to say there is no occupational therapist? When you have a mental illness, organization and motivation and those types of things that we take for granted don't necessarily happen.

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay, sorry.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that's possible. I think that's happening now. Whether or not there's consistency, I'm not sure. Whether they actually go there and get the therapy, I'm not sure.

Veterans Affairs committee  If I can be so bold, I have to say that I really don't understand what that all means. I'm sorry, I feel like--

Veterans Affairs committee  If it means I get more service...but I don't know, I'm sorry.

Veterans Affairs committee  That would be an amazing opportunity. As long as they're as nice as this panel, then I'd be happy to.