National Defence committee  I can answer that one specifically as well. If it is for the ill and injured population, if an activity is organized with the Soldier On program, they don't have to take leave. It's part of their rehabilitation. If it is something organized by a civilian organization outside of

National Defence committee  Understood. To your first question, at the moment we are just under 2,000 people posted to the JPSU, and we have roughly an additional 3,500 walk-in clients. That means that their daily administration and command is done by their own unit, but they come in. They may have an inju

National Defence committee  Absolutely. On staffing shortages, when you mentioned the medical health service providers, they don't work for me, they work for the surgeon general. Again, unfortunately, we will have to take that question under advisement to get those numbers for you. As far as staffing of t

National Defence committee  We are open to anything, to whatever the member finds. He sits down with people from SISIP financial services, and they look at what his vocational rehab plan is. Based on where the individual wants to be, the plan is put together. We assist them, perhaps through their vocational

National Defence committee  It is a very fair question. The short answer, and specific answer, is to deal with the Soldier On program that works within the JPSU construct, because we have a number of activities. Unfortunately, the activity to which you refer was scheduled at the same time that we were hosti

National Defence committee  Through the military employment transition program, we have joined forces with Canada Company. On staff, they are bringing in a number of career coaches from the private sector—and already have—and any of our personnel who are leaving who want to take advantage of those services

National Defence committee  It is relatively new, yes; I would say probably within the last six months or so.

National Defence committee  When a person's medical condition is established and the directorate of medical policy says that the person's limitations do not breach universality of service and there are occupations in which positions are available, at that point the person is offered the opportunity to train

National Defence committee  Oh, absolutely. It is a serious consideration.

National Defence committee  Again, that's a little bit outside of my lane, because it is a health services issue, but I can tell you that the Canadian Forces health services information system is now automated and the information is transferred to Veterans Affairs Canada.

National Defence committee  Again for specifics on that, I'm not the right person to answer, unfortunately.

National Defence committee  One of the transition programs we have involves working with trade unions, because we would like to see more of our trades—the pipefitters on ships, etc.—Red Seal qualified with the provinces. That's the main issue in that. The forces training has to be recognized as a Red Seal q

National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  All of our programs are constantly reviewed. There is a continuous improvement process which is very important. We even have a group of people who devote themselves to improving our programs. We take into account the suggestions made by the injured, the chain of command, the fami

National Defence committee  I will begin by saying that all suicides are very tragic.