At the end of every serious incident we conduct a very rapid analysis of what's occurred. I call it the “96-hour report”. In this particular case, the Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, Lieutenant-General Walt Natynczyk, personally asked for the 96-hour report in order to huddle with the Chief of the Land Staff, expeditionary commander, and ADM Materiel and actually go through our analysis and pictures to see what actually occurred here.
That analysis is under way. At this point it would be premature to speculate on exactly what occurred. The analysis is still going on.
The output of all of this is that, having realized what's occurred, are there any other further equipment improvements we could make? What do we need to change through our procedures?
My own personal view at this point is that we had some bad luck in that one particular location. We've had many IEDs go off in the last several weeks. Our equipment and our procedures have saved many Canadian and Afghan lives. The equipment we have is first-rate. But we need to look closely at this one. It was catastrophic, the result, and none of us want to see that occur again.