I would suggest to you that obviously the Afghanistan operation has taken a lot of resources, but at the same time, we deployed 4,500 people to staff the Olympics. We deployed 2,000 people to Haiti. This is where the reserves come in, obviously. There's a large capacity to do that. It's an insurance policy, yes, but on the other side of that, where does the defence of Canada begin? It doesn't necessarily begin in Canada. It can begin, as it has historically, somewhere else in the world. The insurance policy is not just within our borders. The insurance policy is part of our obligation to the international community to be part of alliances, to be part of the group of countries doing the right thing, I would suggest.
On May 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.