Veterans Affairs committee  No, I haven't. That's definitely not my area. I come as a front-line worker, and I definitely don't have the expertise to look at cost-effectiveness. I assume it would be more cost-effective to use the resources that are already there instead of creating new ones. I think that wo

Veterans Affairs committee  Ron, will you do that for me?

Veterans Affairs committee  If you do it as long as I have, it's taken an extreme amount of resources and a couple of tours to get me through, but it's been eight years of full-time school. Right now the timeline for occupational therapists to go through, I believe, is four years—it's getting more competiti

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, they do. As I mentioned in the opening, Veterans Affairs in the Okanagan has Carole Kennedy, who's the rehabilitation assistant. She also has the contract for district occupational therapists and she gives out referrals. She has got on the rehabilitation team. I can't real

Veterans Affairs committee  Exactly, yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  We got our posting message yesterday.

Veterans Affairs committee  He's only been in there for five months, in the Okanagan. There you go.

Veterans Affairs committee  Dare I say I think he's your responsibility now—

Veterans Affairs committee  —because I do believe there are some veterans like us...and when I say “veteran” in this sense, I mean a veteran like my husband. When we leave the base, we're not near anything. We're not near services. We don't have the military family resource centre at the BCDs in Kelowna. He

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, actually, that just happened recently. I happened to show up, and a physiotherapist was the community worker for the wife, and so we were able to brainstorm. It was an excellent opportunity. Being an isolated OT, because I'm in private practice, I go in alone, so having that

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. The health care team really does provide—

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there is. If it comes across that our community occupational therapist, sent by Interior Health, is working with a veteran, we'll talk about who's going to take the referral, because obviously we can't overlap. I have access to Veterans Affairs. I literally have access to

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.