National Defence committee  Yes. We have clinical psychologists.

National Defence committee  No. But the question is do we need uniformed clinical psychologists and does the requirement to deploy them in deployed operations exist sufficiently that it would be of sufficient benefit. And that is what Colonel McLeod's working group is evaluating right now, with the report t

National Defence committee  Every study we do, and we do a lot, we specifically include reservists. So far, consistently, all the research has been demonstrating that the rate of mental illness among reservists, whether related to deployed operations or not, is actually lower than it is among the regular fo

National Defence committee  Right. So if they have an injury or illness, including a mental illness that occurs subsequent to their demobilization, their return to part-time service, or even after release from Veterans Affairs, they're eligible to have all their care that's not covered or not accessible by

National Defence committee  Thank you, ma'am. The 2014...the analysis of those two major surveys will be completed. Subsequent to that, it will probably be a couple of months of evaluation to determine matching the distribution of and the anticipated projected need over the years, based on the data that co

National Defence committee  We don't have the mandate to look after the families, but we have succeeded to some extent, and we have objective data to demonstrate it with respect to people presenting for care. There's still reluctance: 90% of those people who don't show up for care don't show up because they

National Defence committee  I think the point there is that we have to have a complete mental health system that doesn't exclusively focus on operations-related mental injuries because the bulk, from a volume quantitative perspective, of our burden are the illnesses resulting from the same stresses that aff

National Defence committee  Not at all. In fact that's why we award the Sacrifice Medal to people who've suffered an operational stress injury. It is treated like any other combat injury. The name of our seven most specialized centres in mental health are called operational trauma and stress support centre

National Defence committee  For one thing, there's a major shortage of mental health professionals across Canada. For another, we can only deploy uniformed military personnel abroad. As a result, we have to rotate our psychiatry and mental health personnel. We typically do whatever we have to to make sure t

National Defence committee  I don't know. I would have to look at exactly what happened that time to find out why.

National Defence committee  It's important to remember that mental health specialists are not the only mental health professionals we have. All of our doctors are expected to provide mental health services.

National Defence committee  We are committed to hiring social workers, mental health nurses and psychiatrists to the extent possible.

National Defence committee  We don't currently have any psychologists in uniform. We have lots of civilian psychologists.

National Defence committee  We don't deploy psychologists because we haven't identified a need that can't be met by psychiatrists, mental health nurses and social workers. We've been conducting an analysis over the past year. We'll find out the conclusions at the end of April, and that's when we'll know if

National Defence committee  Because so far, we haven't identified a need. The way we deploy—