Veterans Affairs committee  Our group therapy is with the OSISS program, which is mostly men who were in a combat role. If we think that it's good to send men who were in combat in Afghanistan to talk together and find support, then sure, that will be fair. I'm just saying that people who are in a combat-related role think there's a difference between them and, let's say, a policeman.

Veterans Affairs committee  Take OSISS, for example. I know you talked with Frédéric Doucette a while ago, and he said he only had five cases in 15 years. I had 200 within two years, so obviously the system that they have, which is supposed to apply to everybody, is not working for us.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll email them to the....

Veterans Affairs committee  The Legion for a long time was trying to play that role. How many times have you heard of military sexual trauma when they were representing all of us? Right now, the ministerial advisory groups are run by whoever they decide to put there. How many people like me have you seen there?

Veterans Affairs committee  How many people who have military release have been medically released or quit after reporting an assault? That would be step one. Then how many of them tried to claim from VAC, and did they get accepted or denied? That would be another one. Then, what type of services did they get?

Veterans Affairs committee  Sexual health is not military sexual trauma. That's just basically where somebody could have a sexual dysfunction because of medication or PTSD and be impotent or something like that. Those are the questions they have. They actually do not have a sexual trauma screening. That's what they mean by sexual health.

Veterans Affairs committee  Are you talking about the statement made at the end of November?

Veterans Affairs committee  Do you mean the statement about the survey involving 960 people, that had just been released?

Veterans Affairs committee  That survey did not include recruits, or those who were taking a course for approximately the first two years. This was the highest proportion of sexual misconduct incidents ever recorded, at least according to American research, as we have no Canadian research on this. A lot of people took part in the survey, but it excluded everyone who had left the Canadian Forces, as well as those who were in the process of being released.

Veterans Affairs committee  The assessment is only for those who have been in active combat. I was in the navy, personally. You have to ask for an assessment to be done, and perhaps even insist on it. In fact, this concerns people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and not the mission support team.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I guess I've been told that they will look into it. I was contacted by somebody about four months ago, but then that was it. I never heard back afterwards.

Veterans Affairs committee  We need more women in the military, because the more we have, the more secure we feel to report. You realize that when it's a male-dominated area, women seem to be in self-preservation mode. I did it myself. Somebody came to me once and said that something had happened, and I said, “Well, I'm not going to back you up because if I back you up, I'm going to be put in the same position as you.”

Veterans Affairs committee  What I've been told is that the services are for everybody, so we shouldn't have to.... For me, it's more like an equity-equality kind of thing, right? Equal doesn't mean equity—

Veterans Affairs committee  —so I think there should be a little bit more push, especially when all the pictures and all the information out there obviously don't target a 19-year-old woman, right?

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, for two years.