Veterans Affairs committee  Sure. Thanks very much for the question. I think there are lots of ways that research is happening on veterans. Within Veterans Affairs Canada we have a research division. It does not have extensive amounts of money to be able to go out and conduct large-scale research, so we wa

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not sure I'd be able to provide a lot of detail around it.

Veterans Affairs committee  I know that our local area director works very closely with them on all of their initiatives. I'll ask Mark in a second to chime in. He knows a little bit more about it than I do. I would say that's a great example of a community initiative that exists across the country that V

Veterans Affairs committee  The 10-second answer would be no. There are lots of good decisions. We've been making a lot more decisions. As part of making more decisions, sometimes there are more appeals that go forward to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board, but we've reduced the backlog, those files beyon

Veterans Affairs committee  I can definitely provide the committee with the exact details. As for files that are backlogged more than 16 weeks, there are approximately 5,000. That’s a significant reduction from the 23,000 files we had three years ago.

Veterans Affairs committee  They're from the last quarter, which ended in December.

Veterans Affairs committee  They're absolutely the same, and the same is true of men's and women's files. There may be minor differences of a week or two in processing times between the two groups, depending on the quarter, but, generally speaking, they're exactly the same.

Veterans Affairs committee  First of all, I said that 39% of releasing veterans report that they're having difficulties. I'm not familiar with the study that the library submitted, but I can tell you that, according to a study conducted by Veterans Affairs Canada, and which I believe contains absolutely a

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't think it's distressing for them, but they may find it difficult.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know. I can only refer to the survey that I've seen. I don't know the numbers from the other surveys. It definitely appears that transition is a difficult time for many veterans.

Veterans Affairs committee  For members who haven't yet left the Canadian Armed Forces, rehabilitation services are provided by the armed forces' vocational rehabilitation program. I can let Commodore Bouchard tell you about that. If veterans experience service-related difficulties following release, rehabi

Veterans Affairs committee  Correct.

Veterans Affairs committee  There are a variety of estimates that exist for homelessness with respect to veterans. Somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 is usually an estimate that's used.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's because of the difficulty in trying to count the number of veterans for self-identification purposes. In other words, it's the veterans identifying themselves as part of the counts that take place in institutions that are helping homeless people, such as outreach centres tha

Veterans Affairs committee  I think some of the circumstances globally and within the country have changed to make housing more difficult. It's certainly not hard to look at the news and find that housing is a main struggle for individuals across the country, be they veterans or not. I think the challenges