Veterans Affairs committee  No, I'm from the Veterans Affairs office in Charlottetown.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm going to start off by talking a bit about our mental health strategy.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're very, very pleased to be here to speak before your committee. I'll tell you a little about who we are and why we're here today. You've had some very impressive presentations from very knowledgeable people on the subject of post-traumatic stress disorder. We'd like to augm

Veterans Affairs committee  No. There are a number of doctors in my family, but I am not one of them.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for that question. It's a good question. We don't have a direct number that we've been forecasting in terms of the number of clients who would specifically have these occupational stress conditions. What I can tell you, and I think it is important to think about, is t

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a tricky question, as you know, in the sense that— Let me answer it in this way. One of the features of the new Veterans Charter that I think is very important is that the wellness programs we provided under the new charter also extended to families. This was quite a new

Veterans Affairs committee  Let me start by trying to answer your question in a more general way. Then I'll ask Raymond to deal specifically with some of the issues you've raised as they relate to regions in Quebec. You've touched on the important issue that many of the folks suffering from some of these c

Veterans Affairs committee  It's the same thing. Raymond do you want to—

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not a clinician in this field, but I can tell you from what I've read and from what clinicians have told me that PTSD can certainly result from a number of different types of events. I don't think our definition or our medical advice around people with PTSD conditions would c

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  In terms of the favourable versus unfavourable, we thought you'd be interested in seeing the number of cases that we have approved. I can't tell you right now what the numbers would be in terms of unfavourable. In general, the favourable rate for these kinds of conditions is arou

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the percentage increase in RCMP members is very similar to the increase for younger CF members. As you would know, the RCMP is eligible to receive the same kinds of interventions from the department, for the same sorts of conditions, in terms of disability awards or disab

Veterans Affairs committee  I haven't heard of other provinces being reluctant. We've been talking, for example, about recent deployments, and some of the recent fatalities in Afghanistan were from Atlantic Canada. We've been briefed very thoroughly by our colleagues in National Defence about missionary wor

Veterans Affairs committee  I appreciate it.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a good question. I have to say that we do have support. The families can get support. In particular, I'll go back to the example I gave in the Calgary area. The clinic there gave me some specific examples of how they treat the families of veterans. One of the issues they h