Veterans Affairs committee  That's why we have to open up the clinics to where the clients are.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, what I said is that for World War II veterans and Korean veterans, it is actually simpler because there were no such tests, generally speaking. Maybe once in a while, depending on what classification...for example, if you were a pilot, you may have had an audiogram on relea

Veterans Affairs committee  Unfortunately, this is not translated.

Veterans Affairs committee  We care.

Veterans Affairs committee  I might answer quickly on one point you raised, the point that there has to be a delineation between still-serving members getting their services in the OTSSC clinics and the veterans getting their services in the OSI clinics. The reality is that there is a capacity problem in me

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. It was in Charlottetown, with Veterans Affairs Canada officials, Canadian Forces mental health people, specialists from the National Center For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction in the United States, and some specialists from Australia. We held the first

Veterans Affairs committee  The challenge I think is in communicating our message, and that's very difficult. People are ready or not ready to receive a message. That's why we've come to realize it's very unlikely that we will touch the still-serving member and bring him into our organization, though we do

Veterans Affairs committee  I think Stats Canada would be a good place to start.

Veterans Affairs committee  By that time they were getting better data. There are still some loopholes in the reservist data to this day.

Veterans Affairs committee  I want to go back to a comment I made awhile ago. I think Veterans Affairs Canada was very prescient in 1981 when they introduced the veterans independence program. It is one of the best programs. It is what I would call a standard. It's unique across Canada because it provides s

Veterans Affairs committee  It's still a work in progress through committees of the GAC. I think we are getting closer to a final product. I think we're getting closer to a fully developed process. But that fully developed process is remaining within what I have described as an integrated process of the ini

Veterans Affairs committee  The difficulty will be that we keep hearing the term “evidence-based health promotion program”. It is very difficult to design and prove that you have an evidence-based health promotion program because what you see is the lack of success, if you want. It's difficult to gauge succ

Veterans Affairs committee  By the way, there are opportunities here for us at the Legion, because where we are in these more isolated localities, if there was a health promotion program, let's say, for not only veterans but for seniors, we could probably integrate that within our branches.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.