Veterans Affairs committee  No.

Veterans Affairs committee  It was for him.

Veterans Affairs committee  Just to echo what Assistant Commissioner Dubeau mentioned, I have worked well with Superintendent Lemieux's team with regard to alcohol addiction and abuse. There was abuse of...surrounding identifying members with alcohol-related problems. We've worked hours hammering out a po

Veterans Affairs committee  The quick answer is that the plan is not to report, and then it's not an issue, but that's not the acceptable plan, right? I think the awareness of the members about the support.... If a member who wants to get promoted is off for six months in an admin role while he's recoveri

Veterans Affairs committee  I just have a point to clarify. It's serving members I spoke to, not with the veterans. Some of the concerns they have raised are the location. They have to travel hours to get to these clinics. Sometimes it takes four or five hours within the clinic setting, so they have to tra

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, I think PTSD is PTSD. On the needs of the RCMP and the training of the psychologists—I don't know if I'm getting your question right here—they may be few and far between in the sense that we have the 15 or 19 psychologists within the RCMP, but they're not clinical psychol

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. We did the awareness and education component; I think we have to work on the stigma as well. If a member has a broken arm, nobody ever questions whether the person has a broken arm, but if someone has a broken brain or an injured back, they always question it, right? We h

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, I think that it comes with the training. Part of the OSI process is that you have to be a person recovering from trauma before you can be a member of the group. You've gone to one of these clinics.... I'm dealing with a fellow out of Ontario here. He's gone to a military

Veterans Affairs committee  Not knowing 100%, because I've never been in the military, I'll just speak from what I see and have been told by veterans and RCMP members who have gone into theatre in Afghanistan or to the different places that we police. They're there for a year or less the majority of the t

Veterans Affairs committee  I can only speak for the RCMP. The mindset out there now is that if we speak up on, say, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, there's a possibility of getting a Veterans Affairs pension or settlement. In that case, you might be flagged as a possible risk to the organization and

Veterans Affairs committee  Just for example, I sent an email off to Veterans Affairs last week and told them I was interested in a certain portion of it. They came back and told me to contact my local regional office. Where's that? They didn't ask where I was from or tell me whom to contact. They just said

Veterans Affairs committee  To touch on a bit of Mr. Stoffer's question as well, I've been in the VAC ombudsman's office a couple of times, actually several times, and I didn't see any information there. There could be general information displayed saying that Veterans Affairs does offer this service to mem

Veterans Affairs committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, committee members, and guests. As we were introduced, my name is Mike Casault, and with me is my partner Abe Townsend. By way of introduction, both Abe and I are elected to the national executive of the staff relations representative program. The staf