Veterans Affairs committee  As I said earlier, most of the clinics are provincial ones that Veterans Affairs funds. We have established protocols with the clinics to ensure that the types of services across the country are similar, even though they're delivered by different health authorities. On the init

Veterans Affairs committee  Of course in the area of research around PTSD and operational stress injuries, much research has been done across the world in this area, a lot around PTSD from rape, from accidents, and car accidents. There has been a lot of PTSD research done in the States around the U.S. veter

Veterans Affairs committee  There have been no suicides in hospital.

Veterans Affairs committee  We have to get the information from the family to determine whether there has been a suicide.

Veterans Affairs committee  Some cases get media coverage, but it's still anecdotal in that the information disseminated here and there isn't systematic. If the family doesn't inform us, based on a coroner's decision, that it's a suicide case, we can't count those cases, determine their number. On the other

Veterans Affairs committee  Not necessarily.

Veterans Affairs committee  Your comment concerns the Canadian Forces, not us. The distinction has to be made between the Canadian Forces and us; we are the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Canadian Forces were normally supposed to double their strength, which they did or are about to do. As for us, si

Veterans Affairs committee  As we told you earlier, there will be a study—

Veterans Affairs committee  It's provincial clinics that we fund.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are definitely some people who have been seen in our clinics at one place or another across the country who have committed suicide.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have the figure to hand.

Veterans Affairs committee  Not to me.

Veterans Affairs committee  Maybe for clarification, when you were talking about five centres across the country with wait times, you’re probably talking about the Canadian Forces operational trauma clinics. At Veterans Affairs, we have nine outpatient clinics across the country. We have over 2,000 servic

Veterans Affairs committee  Obviously we're not experts when it comes to National Defence's programs and services, but what I can tell you is that National Defence is working hard to identify unstable people, including people who may suffer from mental health issues as a result of family or personal problem

Veterans Affairs committee  PTSD is a diagnosis where some of the symptoms are intrusion thoughts—the thoughts are coming back, and you have avoidance. With an operational stress injury, it's not only a trauma that can cause a condition to develop. As Bryson was saying earlier, the most common mental heal