(Return tabled) Question No. 374 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to veterans, Canadian Forces (CF) members and their mental health needs: (a) what are the 31 recommendations regarding post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) made in 2002 by the Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces, Mr. André Marin, listing for each recommendation (i) whether it is unfulfilled, partly fulfilled, or completed, (ii) any action taken to date; (b) what are the nine highlighted recommendations in the second follow-up report, made in 2008 by the Interim Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces, Ms. Mary McFadyen, listing for each recommendation, (i) whether it is unfulfilled, partly fulfilled, or co ...[+++]mpleted, (ii) any action taken to date; (c) how many psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, mental health nurses, social workers, chaplains and other counselling personnel currently serve in the Canadian Forces (CF), listing for each group (i) the ratio of practitioners to clients, (ii) the numbers of practitioners by region, including Afghanistan, and any other location where CF are based or deployed; (d) what is the average wait time for PTSD treatment by region, and what is the projected delay for treatment by region once the CF leave Afghanistan in 2011; (e) what follow-up is done for veterans with PTSD; (f) what research will be undertaken to determine (i) whether the risk of dementia can be reduced by effectively treating PTSD, (ii) what role traumatic brain injury might play in PTSD; (g) what data are currently being collected regarding current and former CF members affected by mental illness; (h) how many CF personnel have been treated for Operational Stress Injuries (OSI), anxiety, depression, or PTSD annually since 2001; (i) how many CF personnel have required in-patient treatment for severe PTSD annually since 2001 and what is the average distance to travel for in-patient care by region; (j) of the CF personnel ...

Review the public internal financial control (PIFC) policy paper and present laws on PIFC and internal audit, in order to make both the PIFC policies and current legislation comprehensive and consistent, and update the action plan for implementation of the medium-term priorities related to PIFC.

The Binational Tourism Alliance argued for improvements to “the security components of all the existing and new documents – driver’s licence(s), birth certificates, passports and the NEXUS/FAST programs are all part of this – and (that none of these should be eliminated) . from acceptance as valid ID Taxpayers would not have to pay for an additional type of identification, but the cost of enhancement could be included in the updated versions of any of these options that the consumer then has the ...[+++]choice to use”.

- ratification of 2001 Annual Financing Agreement and preparation of documentation needed for signature of 2002 Annual Financing Agreement, organisation and carrying out of meetings of the Monitoring Committee for the SAPARD programme and preparation and carrying out of specific procedures as regards the up-dating and amendment of the National Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (NPARD) [24] as well as preparation for accreditation of other measures in the Programme;

Now, with all due respect to Mr. Wilfert, realistically, what we're getting here is a request from the Minister of Finance to deliver his economic update on a date of his choosing, asking that the finance committee change, not a carved-in-stone plan but an assumed travel plan, in order to give his economic update a little bit better photo op.

Our idea is that, every four or five years, in each country, a more in-depth analysis should be carried out – it may be a supplement to the documents from the stability programme – on long-term public finances with the obvious fundamental problem of the ageing of the population and from which, nevertheless, when updating the annual programmes we only take the most necessary basic information.