Veterans Affairs committee  I will speak for the serving members when I speak of concepts. When members are what we call off-duty sick, we don't want to affect their pay or their benefits. It's like they are working. Our health regime is such that if you are off-duty sick, you take the time you need to get

Veterans Affairs committee  On the benefit piece, as I indicated earlier, that's something we are talking to our vets about, because now Veterans Affairs, under the mandate of its minister, is looking at everything. They're looking at everything. We're working very closely with them and they've been very op

Veterans Affairs committee  I think anything that would be given would be beneficial. Something like that would definitely help. That's something we haven't heard from our vets, but we will ask our associations whether that is an issue with us where our members are not sure how to navigate through this. Any

Veterans Affairs committee  The road to mental health readiness is based on the DND training. We have taken what DND has developed, because they were very open to that, and the Canadian Mental Health Association designed the course. We took that course. Calgary police have taken that course. They modified i

Veterans Affairs committee  We can always go with court orders too. We hope we never have to go there, but to get a member help, we can do something.

Veterans Affairs committee  As you heard me say, under our policy with our health services, you can actually ask for an assessment. Any managers in the organization who manage a member can ask for a mandated psychological assessment if they feel there's a need for it. We could do that, and then based on wha

Veterans Affairs committee  Oh, I'm sorry. I missed it completely. We would just use the local.... We're not like DND. Our health services do not have treating facilities. We don't have any of that. We use what's out there in public health. We would access the hospitals. We access Homewood, I believe, in O

Veterans Affairs committee  It is an issue, though not on the scale of...I've heard from the paramedics talking about their rates. We track our suicides. Great-West Life is our insurance provider. It does track cause of death, and it's only as good as what somebody puts as cause of death. We've had from, I

Veterans Affairs committee  As I said, during the whole accommodation process with our disability management advisers, that's where that discussion would happen. There's a whole discussion around options to accommodate or not. A lot of times, with the education and the level of understanding now, members as

Veterans Affairs committee  I believe there are financial advisers under VAC. Pierre, I just want to confirm that.

Veterans Affairs committee  No, it is does not apply. We do not have universality of service.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we do accommodate.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we do have a medical discharge process. Most of it's consensual, but we do have one that's not consensual. It's an administrative discharge process because of medical reasons.

Veterans Affairs committee  To be honest, on the consensual ones, no, because usually the member has come to an agreement that they can no longer do this work, that it's not healthy to do this work. On the non-consensual ones, obviously that's when you are discharging or terminating an employee. That gets

Veterans Affairs committee  If discharged, yes, we would have a medical pension, and Pierre would be on the pensions. We do have medical pensions, but yes, they still have to apply to VAC for a different type of pension. That's a different type of pension and different benefits, so you do have to still appl