Veterans Affairs committee  When a military member was in the system they had a doctor in the system. Now it's a very new experience for the transitioning member and veteran. To find a doctor sometimes it may be a new location for them. They are not familiar how to find a family doctor. It is something they

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. And sometimes they do it and realize is, and sometimes they don't.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, actually one of our team's key initiatives involves conducting every three years a large survey of quality of life among spouses of regular force members. This survey goes to a random sample of spouses of regular force personnel, and we actually just administered one of thos

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not personally familiar with such an initiative.

Veterans Affairs committee  Some of them did.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's a good question. We don't know, because we only speak to these people once and we don't follow up with them. They may find a doctor and they may have no problems afterwards, but at the point when we do have interviews, they mention that they have those problems. So it's ac

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, members. My name is Alla Skomorovsky. I have been a defence scientist in the Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis at the Department of National Defence for 13 years now. Since 2009, I have been working as a researcher and a team leader for the mi