Veterans Affairs committee  No. I don't have that information, but I would be pleased to obtain that for you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Very briefly, regarding special concerns about women with PTSD, this is a very important area for Veterans Affairs. In fact, I believe about 10% of our clients in receipt of disability benefits for PTSD are women; so of 14,000 that we have, about 1,443 are women. We very much c

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Maureen. Good morning, everyone. I'm very pleased to be here today, particularly with the Legion and with Tim, with respect to the important subject of the transitioning of our veterans to the workplace, which is a critical subject for veterans, as you can see from

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. When you look at the veteran population—and that's through a Statistics Canada study that was done, I think it was back in 2002—749,000 is the estimated veteran population, and our client population is 218. So we're very fortunate in terms of the number of peopl

Veterans Affairs committee  To go in order of your questions, the reference to the 65,000, I'm not sure if that was the Canadian Forces.

Veterans Affairs committee  —but on the second, we actually have our providers registered in a database. Of the 2,000, we can provide you with what proportion of them are mental health nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. On the third point you made, certainly it is not acceptable that any veteran is alone and not getting the kinds of services they need. That's certainly an area of concern to Veterans Affairs, if that is happening. Again, one of the things we're trying to do for the people

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. We actually have statistics on all of our veterans who are in receipt of a disability pension for a psychiatric condition. We know exactly where they're located. We know how many there are. We know their age. We have done a lot of work in terms of trying to really understa

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay. I can't confirm that number, obviously—

Veterans Affairs committee  I can respond to your question from a departmental perspective. For an example, just in this last year, for all of the claims and applications we received for disability benefit relating to PTSD, the favourable rate has been over 80%. The favourable rate is quite high in compari

Veterans Affairs committee  Maybe I didn't quite phrase it properly, but that particular veteran doesn't have to wait to get their treatment and to get their treatment paid for while they're waiting for a disability pension or a disability award.

Veterans Affairs committee  Their travel will be funded by the department when they're in the rehabilitation program. That has been a major improvement to our system since the new Veterans Charter, because prior to that people had to wait until they got a disability pension decision in order for us to get t

Veterans Affairs committee  To address the very issue that you said, in terms of delays in the pension process for people who really need it and need the treatment, because of the new Veterans Charter, we don't have to put people through the disability process in order to get them into treatment. We can get

Veterans Affairs committee  I could start on some of the questions, and certainly you can respond, Raymond.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not an expert in health-related travel, but I do know that the policy exists and the benefit exists for veterans if they have a disability benefit relating to service and they have a requirement to travel for their medical appointment or treatment. So we'll certainly look int