Veterans Affairs committee  In the detachment I had in Burnaby, in one year five people committed suicide. In my career, 19 guys I've worked with have committed suicide. I'm not aware of any investigations that took place. I know I spoke to them hours before or sometimes just the day before some of these pe

Veterans Affairs committee  That's correct. Once the force gets involved, they become the client. They direct and they pay the fees, so the doctor is obligated to pay back to them. They take your information and forward it back, and it goes back to your medical file. The issue with that—

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm talking about any physician.

Veterans Affairs committee  What they tried to do was control a doctor. The doctor had come to them and said that the issue of problems with PTSD and the anxiety disorders and everything else was not really with the members; they were okay. The issue was the workplace. The workplace was sick and needed some

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  The result is that the RCMP is too big, and no one wants to take them on.

Veterans Affairs committee  They've looked at them and said it's fine, and that was it. They won't deal with the issues. It's very difficult to do anything, whether you do a privacy information...to lay a charge, or anything to deal with that, particularly in British Columbia. I've had experience in all o

Veterans Affairs committee  We have the entire file, and it's now before the courts in British Columbia under breach of privacy. We've also involved the federal Privacy Commissioner, who gave us a decision. I believe Mr. Banwarie is providing that information to you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Not that I'm aware of, and I deal with a lot of members. Even though I'm retired, I have them phoning me up at night when they're having problems, and there's that gap. The idea is if you have a mental problem or you're having a problem, go see a doctor. We now kind of wash it aw

Veterans Affairs committee  I find it very strange what the RCMP does. If you get into a car accident, they send out an investigator, they send out an analyst, and they take measurements and photos. They take statements from everybody involved and they find out what the cause of that accident was. If you'r

Veterans Affairs committee  I think from the RCMP perspective, we don't really have anybody to go to. We have no association other than MPPAC, which is not our approved section yet. We can't go to the force and we can't go to the doctor, so we're kind of left on our own. They send us in the direction of fil

Veterans Affairs committee  If I may just interrupt, Sebastien Anderson was to speak.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. My name is Dave Reichert. I spent 35 years in the RCMP and I've been retired now for the last two years. The RCMP is a large organization, which has grown and evolved to the point where the needs of management have minimized the needs and health of its members. An R