That's a very interesting question and I thank you for it. The highest level of the CF Health Services system has changed structures a number of times over the past five or six years. When I was a major and lieutenant-colonel, a major-general and three brigadier-generals managed the system. They shared the duties.
At the time of the re-engineering, the number of generals was considerably reduced, such that only one remained, General Auger. In 1999, the Chief of Defence Staff appointed a Director of Health Services who, for the first time, was not a doctor: Major-General Mathieu. She was also the only general. We tried with a surgeon general who was a colonel. After a period of experimentation, the position of surgeon general was created for a general, but there was also the director general and the group commander at the time. General Mathieu and I worked in that context.
After General Mathieu's departure, Commodore Kavanagh and I worked as a team. After Commodore Kavanagh retired, I had to perform all the duties. Last week, we learned that, during the transfer period that will take place this summer, Major-General Devlin will be appointed Director General of Health Services. I will continue to occupy the position of Surgeon General and Commander of the Health Services Group.