National Defence committee  Can you hear me now?

National Defence committee  When my teenage kids aren't around, I have one of these tech experts do it for me. It's fantastic. All right. Let's try again. I'm hearing an echo here.

National Defence committee  I'm a bit distracted hearing myself twice.

National Defence committee  Okay, I'm going to start talking. I am hearing a bit of an echo. I look forward to getting this thing going. Technology is always a challenge for all of us as we try to adapt to this new normal. I am hearing an echo. It distracts me. I'm not sure what it does for the rest of

National Defence committee  I probably could be, ma'am, but what time do you think?

National Defence committee  I didn't hear an echo when your colleague Mr. Dowdall spoke either. Is translation happening?

National Defence committee  Thank you. I'll try to be brief as well since we've lost a bit of time. Madam Chair and members of the Standing Committee on National Defence, I am the chief of psychiatry at CAF. I have several key roles, including advising leadership on mental health issues. I'm the senior men

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. Madam Chair and members of the Steering Committee on National Defence, I am the Chief of Psychiatry in the CAF. I have several key roles, including advising the leadership on mental health issues. I'm the senior mental health clinician of the CAF. I conduct

National Defence committee  That's an excellent question, because the answer is that in 30 years of working in mental health, specifically in the last 20 years, and sadly being involved with virtually every suicide investigation we've had in the CAF, certainly in the last 10 years, I've never truly seen thi

National Defence committee  I'll start with that. The whole science of going from intent, to ideation, to attempt—either serious attempt or “not serious attempt”—then to the actual suicide act is a bit.... There's some debate in academia as to how somebody transitions through it. Are there differences betw

National Defence committee  I absolutely share the concerns. We are asking our soldiers—and service members in general—to do some things. We're going to unfamiliar ground. As somebody who has been around long enough...I was in Rwanda a few years ago and saw a lot of death and a lot of suffering in places li

National Defence committee  My pleasure.

National Defence committee  Yes, on the staffing, again, I will commit to providing the numbers on specific staffing. When I last checked, about 90% of all of our positions were filled. That has been a sort of a steady state for the last few years. A lot of it is due to normal attrition. Often we have chall

National Defence committee  I appreciate that. Thank you very much.