National Defence committee  I think in some ways I pinch myself. I think of deploying to Rwanda in the early 1990s, where mental health was an afterthought; we didn't think we needed it, but people who went suffered, and of course there's Roméo Dallaire and that whole story. In one way mental health was th

National Defence committee  I can't answer that. We don't run CFMAP. I can certainly look into it and try to get you an answer.

National Defence committee  Of the 11, I can tell you the one that we didn't implement, the one that we looked at very carefully, was the Caring Contacts. We looked at it, and the science on it was sort of mixed, the additional setting of it.... So we didn't do that one. In terms of the other one that's so

National Defence committee  We don't have the literature on that right now. We sort of co-chaired a NATO meeting on September 17. We sort of grabbed observations from all of our allies, NATO plus Australia and New Zealand. It seemed like most of our countries saw a drop in use within the first couple of mon

National Defence committee  The MFRCs fall under morale and welfare. It's within the chief of military personnel, but I'll get back to you with the specific office. We're at meetings all the time, but they changed the name a little while ago. I think it's morale and welfare services.

National Defence committee  Do you mean the CFMAP, the Canadian Forces member assistance program?

National Defence committee  I understand. We don't have a hotline in that sense. We have CFMAP, which is the Canadian Forces member assistance program, which isn't a suicide hotline. If a suicide hotline is called, the community suicide hotline, they'll follow their own procedures. There are some national o

National Defence committee  There are many different procedures in place. One of the big divisions, of course, will be whether it's through Veterans Affairs. If people have an identified mental illness or mental injury that's attributable to military service, the really important thing we've changed over th

National Defence committee  I missed the beginning because of the translation. What paper are you referring to?

National Defence committee  Who are the authors?

National Defence committee  I'm not familiar with—

National Defence committee  It's hard to comment on a specific report without knowing the authors' methodology. In general, what I can say about psychiatric care overall is that in the civilian world and military world, we have a long way to go. I think our evidence-based treatments, if we're lucky, whether

National Defence committee  The Road to Mental Readiness is a training and education program, not a treatment program. Lieutenant-Colonel Suzanne Bailey runs R2MR. Like many countries and like our allies, we have education programs to help destigmatize, to teach skills and to teach mindfulness. We start tha

National Defence committee  I can't comment or give you an answer specifically to that, because it's not within health services that we look at that. I will tell you that we work very closely together with the family resource centres. I've had an incredible career in the sense that my colleagues from social

National Defence committee  In general, yes, I can speak about it. If I can speak historically.... One of the reasons—your colleague who asked a previous question set this up nicely—why it is now a joint strategy is the absolute recognition that transition is a particularly high risk. There is a huge diffe