Mr. Chair, I can start, and others can either correct me or fill in.
Underlying the government's commitment to the Canada First defence strategy is really a twofold pledge. One is to have an annual defence escalator and to continue to grow the budget. The second is to provide incremental funding for the cost of deployed operations.
We have about 68,000 soldiers whose salaries we're paying now. Just late last week we sent planes full of soldiers to Afghanistan on that deployment. The incremental extra costs incurred, over and above their baseline salaries--the cost of paying their allowances, feeding them, and all of that--are incremental to the ordinary baseline. They are provided from the government through a separate funding line, as approved by cabinet.
The deployment to Haiti, which got such public attention, added incremental costs to the Canadian Forces. So over and above the baseline costs and the funding line you see set out in the budget for reinvestment in capital equipment, infrastructure, and people, it costs us more when we send those people on major missions overseas, as it does in Afghanistan and as it did in Haiti. There's a separate allocation provided to the Canadian Forces and the department to offset those costs.