Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, sir.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much, sir. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it's a great privilege to be here this morning. I should explain that in the role of director general at morale and welfare services, I oversee an organization of over 5,000 people, made up mostly of non-pub

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, sir. The director of military family services oversees the funding for the military family resource centres in Canada. We provide roughly 80% of their funding. We provide guidance to them, but as you know, each MFRC is independently monitored.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, sir. We're working very closely with Veterans Affairs Canada to identify those resources. We've been working with them. We're giving the information, as it becomes known to us, to our military family resource centres. We hope to have all this in place by later on this year.

Veterans Affairs committee  As much as possible.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll ask Colonel Blais to respond. He is more detailed in that area.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not exactly sure how to answer that question. For example, I oversee several charities under the “support our troops” umbrella. We have Soldier On, which provides support to serving or retired personnel and to veterans who have suffered mental or physical injuries to get them

Veterans Affairs committee  We've had discussions with Monster.com over the last couple of years, but they deal with the American military. The American military is so mammoth. It's very different from what we have in Canada with our limited number of people retiring each year. There are two trains of thoug

Veterans Affairs committee  No, sir.

Veterans Affairs committee  Are you referring to between VAC and us, or within my organization?

Veterans Affairs committee  I should say we work very closely with Veterans Affairs. The Veterans Affairs liaison officer is on my staff. I'll just talk first about SISIP and the joint personnel support unit. They work very closely together because they're just down the hall. We've overcome the silos and th

Veterans Affairs committee  Sir, I think the best people to ask are the medical community. We don't really deal with the releases. The surgeon general would probably be the ideal person to answer.

Veterans Affairs committee  Sir, could I just elaborate on one point?

Veterans Affairs committee  A lot of times people say they're looking for benefits. There is a difference between what Veterans Affairs offers and what we do. SISIP is insurance. They're very expeditious. There are very few layers.

Veterans Affairs committee  SISIP specific, we're very quick.