I am going to talk about rebuilding our workforce. After the pandemic, we were short more than 10,000 people, as the chief of the defence staff mentioned. We are in the process of rebuilding that workforce. When Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy, or at least the part of the strategy concerning the Canadian Armed Forces, was written, the fact that we have a personnel shortage was taken into account.
On November 27th, 2023. See this statement in context.