National Defence committee  Jitender, do you want to take that one? Okay. Thanks. Personally, I can't explain it. Given the data we have, we're not really able to answer that question. As Dr. Sareen said, suicide is a multifactorial reality. So many factors may be involved that it is not so simple to pin

National Defence committee  I don't recall off the top of my head, but I believe it is in the report. It is, I believe, sometime in the 1980s. This has been going on for a fairly.... I'm sorry. It's 1995. It's in the title of the report. It's since 1995.

National Defence committee  I was at DND from 2006 onwards. I can't speak to prior to 2006, but I can tell you that those statistics were being tabulated, analyzed and published since 2006 at the very least. The reports were at the time being published on the National Defence website.

National Defence committee  That, if it was being collated—and I can't speak to it—was done by the directorate of mental health. Suicide was kept under FHP, Force Health Protection, for historical reasons, and the rest was done through the other directorate. You would have to ask someone from that directora

National Defence committee  It would be under the mental health directorate, yes.

National Defence committee  Indeed, as my colleague was saying, especially on the issue of women, it's really very important to have a more comprehensive picture. According to the data for veterans, the percentage of suicides is increasing shockingly among women, especially in the 40 to 50 age group, if I r

National Defence committee  It's a numbers one. Is it okay if I take it, Jitender?

National Defence committee  Okay. In a nutshell, yes. Obviously, it is just a.... We call it the iceberg. It's the tip of the iceberg. There's obviously a lot of stuff that's happening underneath the water. Just from an accounting perspective and taking away the emotional or the humanistic side of things,

National Defence committee  This question is of a more clinical nature. So I think my colleague should answer it first.

National Defence committee  I have limited insight on this, not having been part of the organization in over a year, and things may have evolved. What I can say is that while the annual suicide report from DND is very important, I think that because of the way our governance of the military and veterans is

National Defence committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name, as you were just told, is Dr. Elizabeth Rolland-Harris. I am an epidemiologist by training. I hold a Master of Science in epidemiology from the University of Toronto as well as a Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology from the London School of