Last year we met the targets for maintaining our number and for the expansion we committed to last year, so it was an expansion target last year. This year, that expansion target is growing by virtue of a new declaration to grow by even more than we had been ordered to a year ago. So we're adapting to a larger growth target.
The number of years it will take is going to be the number of years it will take, frankly, and I can't give you a hard number on that. But the Chief of Defence took all of his leadership, general officers and flag officers, for a two-day session and caused us to look at ourselves to ask ourselves the question, if Canadians aren't coming to us, why not? If we're losing them between the time we attract them and the time we try to enroll them, why? If we're losing them in the first three to five months of their training, why? The last thing we want to do is lose someone who wants to be part of us.
So the amount of introspection that's going on in terms of how we attract and how we recruit, and then how we train and retain our people, is at the highest I've ever seen it. The Chief of Military Personnel, who is the fellow charged with managing the human resources of the Canadian Forces, is working very hard.