National Defence committee  Not yet; I will, yes, but only after all the analysis is done. That one is being done independently. The other one, the health and lifestyle information survey, is being done internally by the epidemiologists at the armed forces public health agency, the directorate of force he

National Defence committee  Correct.

National Defence committee  No, nothing like that.

National Defence committee  We have a pretty robust program based on the 2009 expert panel, which included civil and military experts from academia, allies, etc. We have actioned all of their recommendations. There have been new data, new developments, including technological and so on, since then. You ca

National Defence committee  We are making full advantage. I can't comment on individual cases. What I can say, though, is that when expert external observers evaluate our handling of individual cases and our general policy and program, their findings and their opinions are typically that it's the model. The

National Defence committee  That's correct.

National Defence committee  We only have specific numbers for the Afghanistan mission. The 2002 big study by Statistics Canada evaluated everybody and didn't attempt to determine whether it was related to the operations that had preceded that in Rwanda, Bosnia, etc. Statistics for mental health conditions a

National Defence committee  For example, 13.5% of everybody deployed to Afghanistan, 40,000 troops, we anticipate based on a pretty good study to develop a mental health condition, an operational stress injury that's directly attributed to Afghanistan. That number over the course of nine years we extrapolat

National Defence committee  I don't have objective data, ma'am, but we know that because the Calian contract permits Calian to readily respond to local market forces, they can modify the compensation to retain Calian contractors, so we have had many who tended to stay for a very long time.

National Defence committee  There is a separate organization called the director general for military personnel research that conducts research related to families of military personnel. I'm not sure if there is a survey ongoing, but there was one done within the last few years. I believe there is one tak

National Defence committee  I couldn't answer accurately because it's not within my scope of responsibilities.

National Defence committee  Again, I'd have to defer that to the person responsible for that, support to families.

National Defence committee  But I can tell you that we did expand from 220-something mental health professionals to 447. Twenty-five percent of that increase was specifically to deal with the family involvement by mental health staff in the care of military personnel. We include them in our strengthening th

National Defence committee  Yes ma'am. All of our physicians have licenses that permit them to issue that form. Which arm of the police service, whether it be the civilian police or the military police, that exercises the requirement for a mandatory psychiatric assessment.... The civilian police could equal

National Defence committee  Yes, it's different in every province.