National Defence committee  That is correct. The volunteers are not in the offices.

National Defence committee  Perhaps, but for specific appointments, public servants are the first contact. Once they have assessed the person's situation, they either direct them to a volunteer or keep them as a patient.

National Defence committee  No, we do not. We make use of them as volunteers. But insofar as staff are concerned, all of the staff are public servants.

National Defence committee  No.

National Defence committee  We are measuring trends. There has been an increase in the use of OSISS services to the tune of about 20% over the last year or so. So we are monitoring very closely to see if that continues to rise at that tempo and if so we are also starting to strategize as to whether more sta

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Again, it's probably a little premature to say, but that would be logical.

National Defence committee  The successes are without a doubt the number of people entering treatment. The numbers in the joint personnel support unit have been going up significantly, but we see that as a positive, not that we want to have injured people, but the fact is that people are actually going out

National Defence committee  To my knowledge, we were the first to develop this program. As it is now, we've provided information to a number of our allies. I'm not aware of others who run a robust publicly funded program such as we do.

National Defence committee  There are tons of them. Other important ones that we have are a number of charitable organizations that help us out. For example, when we are modifying someone's home, the public has rather generous benefits available to help us do that, but there are always wants that a person w

National Defence committee  The satisfaction rate—

National Defence committee  I wouldn't be able to answer that one. That would have to be Veterans Affairs.

National Defence committee  Again, if they are interested in joining OSISS as volunteers, we would be more than happy to have them. As job opportunities become open in the OSISS program, if they meet the core competencies we would be happy to consider them for employment.

National Defence committee  We are open to looking at all various programs. But at the moment, for peer support, we find that the training model we have is very well established, it's constantly reviewed, and is very pertinent.

National Defence committee  Yes, it does.