We don't want to lose it, and we've acquired it at very high cost. We lost a sailor again over the past few hours.
We've acquired this fighting capability, an officer corps, a non-commissioned officer corps, that now is battle-tested, with many veterans. When we come back, I think the last thing we want to do, in response to anything except the most urgent emergency, is re-badge our soldiers and send them on peacekeeping missions.
Until we decide, we need to ask whether the armed forces we have, particularly its very heavy-laden headquarters structure, and the training and the equipment we have is what we need. In that ought to be, what do we do in the issue of national interest? I've raised a couple of issues, such as aboriginals being underrepresented, for instance. We also know that visible minorities are underrepresented in the Canadian Forces, and we know the current recruiting and retention problems in the Canadian Forces will grow. We have to pause; we have to look at it and restructure.