National Defence committee  Did you say 41% or 41 individuals?

National Defence committee  No. We have 370 or so of some 400 or so people. It's not 41%. I'm not sure what.... I might have it here. It changes every day.... Yes: we have 379 filled of 447.

National Defence committee  It depends. That's a good question. We're working very, very hard to fill the positions. Your colleague asked about virtual reality therapy. We're bringing in interesting, innovative therapies. Again, the idea really is to impress upon the potential employees in our clinics that

National Defence committee  I think that was the Director Casualty Support Management program, the DCSM, Colonel Blais' folks.

National Defence committee  There's a whole process of doing research, and part of the research is having a research ethics board by a university approve it. Part of it would be how you would recruit people. I think in a study like this it would be very difficult, because you would have biases, and if you

National Defence committee  That's a good question. Thank you. Care of our own is certainly a very important issue within health services and certainly within mental health, and the risk of burnout is something that we certainly do recognize. Mental health professionals are passionate and dedicated. It h

National Defence committee  Sure. What we're requiring is an attitudinal shift. Quite often, I find that people talk forever about the middle ranks—the junior officers and NCMs, the master corporals and sergeants—saying that they're the ones who don't get it. However, I think they also have the most difficu

National Defence committee  Well, I don't think it's appropriate to say that to something. I don't think, on the whole issue of medical release and the idea of when somebody is fit to serve, that it's a simple issue of relapse or not. In fact I've been championing—quoted, or misquoted, in The Globe and Ma

National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  Yes, absolutely.

National Defence committee  It would be their own trade first. The goal is full recovery in their own trade, and if not that, in another trade. For every mental health professional, that's the first goal when they first sit with a patient.

National Defence committee  We're working on it.

National Defence committee  No. We're embracing it and we're exploring it. There are some American platforms. We are working right now on trying to Canadianize the software. I don't want Canadian soldiers to be exposed to American uniforms and Humvees. I want it to be our LAVs and where our folks are.

National Defence committee  We're on the way.