There could be a number of reasons the personnel strength is lower than it was at the outset. Certainly there is a shortage of troops for these international missions. This is a phenomenon that we see not just in the DRC but elsewhere. There is always the pressure to be able to man at strength. Also, of course, because of troop rotation, sometimes the numbers do vary with troops moving in and out during their rotation.
I might also add, since I have the floor, that although the number of Canadian personnel there is rather small, our officers and soldiers are generally deployed in areas where they have specific niche capabilities that many other armed forces would not be able to provide. They might be working on legal issues--for example, there are officers from the Judge Advocate General. So there are very specific niche capabilities that correspond both to Canadian interests and to the needs of the peacekeeping operation.