Veterans Affairs committee  We endeavour to work with all partners and stakeholders—

Veterans Affairs committee  —to try to improve our programs wherever people want to support us and improve—

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Absolutely yes; in fact, that's what we want. When our members come to the JPSU, our aim is to return them to duty as quickly as possible. We treat them based on their medical limitations. That's what we try to do. Ideally, we would return them to the

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, ma'am. Really, the essence is not just taking care of the JPSU, which is focused on the ill and injured folks releasing from the Canadian Armed Forces, but being responsible overall for all of the members of the Canadian Armed Forces who are releasing, so that we implement a

Veterans Affairs committee  At this point, ma'am, we're still undergoing planning. I don't have further details on it.

Veterans Affairs committee  To answer your question, ma'am, yes, we will put performance measures in place. I would just underline, though, that similar to the case with Veterans Affairs, when people come into their job, they receive initial training to do that job. Every year, obviously, depending on their

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, ma'am. As I said, my organization already has a number of veterans working in it. Our senior person in an IPSC, the service manager, is almost everywhere, if not everywhere, a retired Canadian Armed Forces member. There are numerous other civilian employees who are previous

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, ma'am.

Veterans Affairs committee  For life?

Veterans Affairs committee  I will answer in English. The six months is really for a standard transition. For anyone who is severely ill or injured or has complex needs, it changes; they have a much longer time—up to three years, actually. The other thing to understand is that the whole process from when

Veterans Affairs committee  What's important to understand is that neither I nor my units see the medical information associated with a member. That is private and is held by the doctors and the medical folks. I don't know whether they are withholding their information. I expect they would not be, because

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll just clarify. The CDS has directed that we look at universality of service. When I say “we”, I mean the chief of military personnel.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not the lead on it, so I can't really comment other than to say that it is ongoing.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. It helps us to have the human resources to move forward. I can honestly say that we are not at 100% when it comes to human resources. For various reasons, we have positions that are not filled. However, we are trying as much as possible to fill our po

Veterans Affairs committee  About 10% of the positions are unfilled, but most of them are reserve positions. It also depends on the location. For example, we want a reservist in a certain place, but there aren't any. That's the problem. We're trying to make changes. Where we have reservists, we're trying to