The document that is before you I thought in fact had just been circulated to everybody now. I was working on it just as the clerk called. I was putting the finishing touches to it. It's a publication, yet basically it's for the future.
My point is, the forces, whether they want it or not, are going through a philosophical, structural reconfiguration. That's a given. The appointment of a three-star chief of the army, which is unprecedented in the past 40 years, to head this transformation indicates in fact that the Canadian Forces themselves recognize that they need to go back to basics and somehow strike a balance between an army that has, for almost the previous 40 years, been employed, trained, and dedicated almost exclusively to peacekeeping missions, particularly after we left Germany in 1993 or so, to an army now in a full war, and the first time in our history.... I shouldn't say full war; it's a counter-insurgency type of mission. Our army has become, in many respects, Afghan-centric. We have bought tanks and airplanes, and we have a fighting capability that is, despite its very small numbers, quite significant and probably, pound for pound, man for man, among the best.