Monsieur le président, you probably have to get the commander of the air force to come back to address the issue specifically, but what we have done in the last number of years is move towards partnerships with private companies through an open and transparent decision-making process about who those companies would be. In the end, it's a great partnership you're talking about, very different from where we were 20 to 30 years ago.
This one I can talk about in a little detail. Where we now find more civilians working with us together, on operations around the world, it works out extremely well. Some would have said it's a challenge, but I can throw out to you this small anecdotal story.
Last year we decided last year to do five pilots. We'd go to certain community colleges across the country and do five pilots for training. It comes back to the question asked by one of the members of the committee about training capacity. What if you don't have enough training schools to train everybody you recruited?
So we went to five colleges, told them we'd like to do a pilot, and asked if they could do that. This is now the military with the private folks. We actually put our recruits in there, with leadership, in the colleges. The presidents of the colleges are extremely happy--that the dress standard is raised at all the colleges, that their people are much better behaved.
Strangely, and probably understandably, it has had a good effect on both sides of the fence. The military better understand the civilian side and vice versa. They actually do come to better work very strongly as a defence team.