Public Accounts committee  You don't pay me to be a bureaucrat, right?

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  And to be fair, it's not just a national issue, it's an international issue. Internationally, the number of mental health care providers are in short supply around the world. So we're competing with not only the internal-to-Canada challenge, but also the international challenge.

Public Accounts committee  The Veterans Affairs' team is already on the base, and that is very important for this program.

Public Accounts committee  We can do that for you.

Public Accounts committee  It is three months, to be specific, and the information will relate to the situation in Afghanistan.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, it will be in both official languages. It will be tabled in both official languages.

Public Accounts committee  Aside from the money piece, to come back to the discussion in front of us, I would agree with you. First, if we look at the soldiers who have fallen, is there a price the nation can put on any soldier who fell? I would submit you cannot.

Public Accounts committee  That then segues for me into a very critical question of can you then perhaps sit back and say that a health care system that's providing health care to those in uniform who have an unlimited liability contract with not only society but this nation somehow should be constrained b

Public Accounts committee  --because there is a responsibility that we need to do that. I could sit here and tell you that we have, over the last number of years, moved very quickly to establish a stronger link between us and the Department of Veterans Affairs, but to segue it back into an issue here it

Public Accounts committee  Whose policy is that? The Department of Veterans Affairs?

Public Accounts committee  I would submit to you that I don't think a mission ever ends. It will never end in the history of a nation. If you take a look at it from the point of view of honouring our veterans, we continue to honour them every day. If you look at how we portray that information, we still re

Public Accounts committee  I would say yes, but you have to know how simple and how challenging it is. As General Jaeger alluded to, much of this, if not all of it, is decentralized.

Public Accounts committee  Just to be clear, if we were to bring a base wing surgeon in who has a geographic catch basin, he'd probably give you a pretty clear assessment of the state of that area. So it's rolling it up together, and we could do that. But again, I come back to this committee, why we're her

Public Accounts committee  If I can kick off here before General Jaeger comes back, on the first comment you made, first, if you had the information but you didn't have the programs, what would that achieve? I would come back and tell you--which I think is the tougher question--what has this department and