Veterans Affairs committee  We were given $98 million by the project management board to make the increases I gave you in the briefing notes—to add the 218 personnel and some infrastructure. We're certainly spending all that money. So compared to other parts of the health care system, we have been treated f

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. These are civilian psychiatrists who we're hiring.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. We are doing that all the time at major conventions. In fact there is a symposium at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in May. We will have a recruiting booth there for both public service HR and Canadian Forces HR.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're validating that as we go base by base, to see what is the right mix and number of clinical providers at each base.

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  It totally varies. I was just in Esquimalt last week. We have a couple of psychiatrists who are retiring—cutting back a bit and working part-time—to very young people who are coming in. The only thing is that we usually look at experienced personnel. We are not taking brand-new

Veterans Affairs committee  Do you want to take that?

Veterans Affairs committee  It's not easy to contact them sometimes. We have them for the year. But we definitely have noticed that reservists are demanding a lot more service. In Newfoundland, we're putting in extra resources already. In St. John's, we've just added psychology. We have a full-time social w

Veterans Affairs committee  We don't even talk about returning to work. We talk about “remaining at work” when you're sick and get treated, because we know when people are off work, the longer they're off, the less likelihood there is they're going to get better and return to work. So we're really trying to

Veterans Affairs committee  It was 5,000 regular force and 3,000 reservists.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, it definitely was very substantive. We had Statistics Canada do it because they were independent and it was all confidential. So there were no permanent records. They were all kept out at Statistics Canada.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that was the size of the sample.

Veterans Affairs committee  —the pensions to the serving member.

Veterans Affairs committee  We do a four-month post-deployment screening as well, and all the reservists are called in for that medical and mental health screening.

Veterans Affairs committee  We met with VAC and came up with a memorandum of understanding on who would be the providers for clients transitioning to VAC, and it's only psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and masters-prepared clinical social workers. We came up with a common provider list in Blue Cross.