Mr. Chair, that was a risk I was prepared to take as a commander. I would far sooner expose my soldiers to some of the things like we were going to have when we arranged with downtown Edmonton for them to witness autopsies and that sort of thing, and we intended to have them kill a bird or a rabbit or something. But it would be under controlled conditions, where we'd actually practise some of the critical incident stress debriefing techniques that we would expect our soldiers to do. In fact our soldiers did do that debriefing after the friendly fire incident in April 2002.
So yes, there was a risk there, but I would far sooner have taken that risk under controlled conditions than in an operational environment.