Veterans Affairs committee  I can't speak to exactly how it works, but I do know that it's volunteer-based. We want people who are interested in this role; we don't want to assign this to somebody. We want them to want to do this. Then they undergo training. I think it's a day long, but I'm not 100% sure of

Veterans Affairs committee  I can't speak to how they decide this, but ideally you would want to have people at different ranks within a unit, I'd say. Rank does matter in the Canadian Forces. If somebody more junior were to approach a senior person, it might not be taken the same way as if a peer of the sa

Veterans Affairs committee  I would say we're always interested in knowing about ways to prevent illness and injury. That's one of the things we pay particular attention to, because we know that preventing illness or injury in the first place favours long-term health. The challenge, though, is that some of

Veterans Affairs committee  Regarding the road to mental readiness program that we spoke of earlier, one of the new modules we've recently developed is specifically intended for military colleges. We've just implemented this for the first years at the Royal Military College. Depending on how that goes, we m

Veterans Affairs committee  Everybody who returns home from a mission undergoes enhanced post-deployment screening three to six months afterwards. At that time, their mental health conditions in particular are reviewed, but they also have a chance to bring up physical health conditions. These could include

Veterans Affairs committee  Typically, though, if people are having side effects, they would have them early on either in the course of taking the medication or shortly after. You'd expect the person to have experienced them by the three-month to six-month window.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are none that I am aware of. I see no reason why there would be. I should point out that when we see patients, the forms we fill out are part of our own medical record. Veterans Affairs Canada has its own forms, which look for very particular information to help determine

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm going to answer in English if you don't mind. Are you talking about medical records or other documents?

Veterans Affairs committee  Are there any repercussions to the physician for doing that?

Veterans Affairs committee  It is typically the physician, with input from the individual and potentially the chain of command. We make a recommendation to the chain of command that a particular person should be repatriated for medical reasons. The chain of command would likely not know what the reason was.

Veterans Affairs committee  The chain of command can, at its peril.

Veterans Affairs committee  Certain documents from the medical record can very easily be provided to an individual, but to provide the complete medical record requires us, under the Privacy Act, to go through each page and remove information that's considered third party information. That takes some time to

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  We have done many things to improve suicide prevention within the Canadian Forces. As I mentioned earlier, mental illness is one of the key elements of suicide, so we have done a lot to improve the programs and services that we offer clinically to decrease the impact of mental il

Veterans Affairs committee  I will do that, yes.