Sir, perhaps I could start answering that question by explaining some of the culture of the Canadian Forces. What do we mean by a good exercise? A good exercise to us is one where we turned over lots of rocks, identified lots of things that we wanted to make better so that we learned lessons from them. They could be observed; we could put a process in place to actually be able to implement those lessons learned. From the perspective of the Canadian Forces, with any exercise that occurs, if you get to the end of it and it all went very well, there are two things: you either didn't make a tough enough exercise, or you weren't tough enough on yourselves in figuring out how you do it. I should say that is, to some degree, a culture of the Canadian Forces. We want to wring every last drop of benefit that we can out of exercising.
Those three major exercises that I talked about—Bronze, Silver, and Gold—are the whole-of-government exercises. They are the big ones in the calendar where a great many agencies are brought together—there's a tabletop exercise, a live exercise—so that the problem in all its complexity can be addressed. Those aren't the only exercises being done. The Canadian Forces have numerous exercises that we will do, both in preparation for and subsequent to those major ones, and the same is true of the RCMP. The integrated security unit in Vancouver will do far more training cycles than those major events that are pulled together.
Both Bronze and Silver went well, in that, for example, in Silver, we had over 1,000 people actually participating in the exercise. In excess of 100 different agencies, departments, or organizations--a little over 50 operations centres--actually stood up in being exercised during that week. I've no doubt that was a very busy week for a great many people. There are lots of things that we will have identified with respect to the plans that are in place to allow us to respond to an incident, a security concern, and there are bits now that we will improve upon, not just within the Canadian Forces but in many other departments that will do the same thing. What we are involved in this week, in fact, is in bringing together the lessons learned that we have observed within the military organization to support the RCMP and within the RCMP's integrated security organization, so that we both see the world the same way with respect to where we go from here. That series of out-briefs will occur later this week. We've already gathered the lessons out of an exercise in the middle of February. We're pushing that timeline very rapidly, because what we want to do is make sure that when we get to Gold, it is a validation exercise. That's not the time for us to figure out there are more things that we need to do.
We were undeniably brutal during Silver. That's what we intended; that's what was advertised by Mr. Elcock, who is the coordinator for security requirements of the games and also for the G-8. His office was the one that put the exercise program together. We set very high targets. The level of cooperation that we've seen during that exercise has never, to my knowledge, been achieved before in an exercise. That's success as far as we're concerned. There's lots of stuff that we will now take for action to make changes. That's a good thing.