Defence Minister Rob Nicholson answers a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. New documents show the Canadian military found recruiting new psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers an uphill battle because the government's top pay scale wasn't high enough in some parts of the country. A briefing note, prepared for former defence minister Nicholson at the height of last year's suicide crisis, shows National Defence scrambled to fill dozens of vacant mental health positions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick