Mr. Peate spoke of the centre that was supposedly being set up between DND and Veterans Affairs. It was going to have five locations across the country where you could go if you had a chemical problem. You would be tested and they would come up with some sort of finding on you.
If that had been initiated it would have been a great step forward, because what do you do with a person in British Columbia? Do you bring them to Ottawa if that's the only place where there's someone skilled enough to take care of them; or do you have someone in B.C., someone in the prairie provinces, someone in Ontario, and someone in the Atlantic?
If you had all those people, in effect you would be taking care of the problems. You wouldn't think of having an ombudsman, because you need to have more than one location. If you had an ombudsman he would either be constantly on the road or there wouldn't be people at those locations. So I think the original premise was that DND was going to have five places across the country.
The problem was, surprisingly enough, that there weren't five qualified people in all of Canada to man those centres. Maybe we haven't trained enough people in preventive medicine. You can't very well have a preventive medicine portfolio without having someone who is qualified.