National Defence committee  That's a very broad question. If we're just focusing on the issues that we learned, and likely Colonel Jardine learned as well, during SHARP training, which was the first seminar approach that was taken after Somalia.... In that regard, I took it too. That has changed dramaticall

National Defence committee  In different areas, yes, but your question is quite broad and for all the services and supports, probably not. I think what we're finding, and what you'll see in our report on mental health for primary reservists, is that there's an information or awareness gap there that needs t

National Defence committee  That's not a bad word for it, actually. We continue to make that recommendation. In fact, for primary reservists now, the CAF does this. It does service attribution for primary reservists, so why does it not do it for all the regular force? In fact, for certain conditions a bit

National Defence committee  The same recommendation as we put in our report.

National Defence committee  Certainly the United States has a very different approach to how it serves veterans, after their service in this case. They have veterans hospitals. They continue their treatment with experienced military doctors, or doctors who have military experience. I think that, in general,

National Defence committee  We generally don't deal directly with legal matters like that, in essence, but I believe both the OVO's and my job is to make sure we refer the people to the right place to get that support in this particular case. As a result of the announcement, our intake team will have the

National Defence committee  It's quite simple for me. Military families are, as we've always said, the backbone of the military member. They provide the support. They provide the support during a deployment. They take care of the dependants while the member is serving, maybe deployed overseas. It's much e

National Defence committee  That's exactly the question I'm asking.

National Defence committee  In the original instance, when we made that recommendation, it definitely was our department, National Defence, and the CAF pushing back on that particular issue. The explanation given to me was that this was an ethical issue of a treating doctor at the same time saying, for insu

National Defence committee  Well, to be honest, I think the answer—

National Defence committee  Go ahead, Nishika.

National Defence committee  In some aspects, yes. The Canadian Armed Forces are working very hard to ensure that family members.... As they are required to support a member going through a crisis.... That's done through various people and staff within the military family resource centres. Spouses or partne

National Defence committee  Yes, and I think, as I referred.... The military family resource centres are the avenues, in many ways, to accessing some of those supports. Many of the MFRCs are putting in place various supports—whether that's a teen counsellor or various activities for teens—to try to help sup

National Defence committee  That is a recommendation we still strongly believe in, as I've already talked about. For me, it makes common sense that the people who have the best knowledge of the environment in which you're working—and, possibly in this case, getting injured, whether that's a mental injury or

National Defence committee  I've talked about this quite often, and so have my predecessor and every one of the predecessors before that. I always ask a question like, “Okay, why is it going to be greener on the other side of the fence?” In that regard, I have three main issues. One is that I feel we can