Again, I alluded to it in answer to another question. The short answer is yes. So for known types of operations, I cited two—non-combatant evacuation operations and disaster assistance and relief—and we have another one, major air disasters. Those are essentially plans that sit on the shelf and indicate a level of readiness and response. I couch that as high response, because the timelines for those are “move now”. In that sense, yes, CANOSCOM does maintain capabilities in certain functional areas that we would need to augment a task force moving out the door, so that we can be very responsive, in terms of time and space, to be able to act on that.
The other piece you alluded to, in terms of readiness—of course, you are going to have an opportunity with the service chiefs, and specifically the Royal Canadian Air Force, to talk about their force generation, because they are the force generation commands, and quite rightly so. Yes, one thing we do all the time, and need to, is to have a culture of training and education. That is just the reality for the Canadian Forces. I always like to say logistics is a little bit different. We train every day because we are executing every day.
Again, the high readiness piece in CANOSCOM I talked to, but I would suggest that the bulk of the rest of the operational support command units, formations, and technical capabilities maintain a level of response and readiness to be able to respond to the timelines of other types not as time-sensitive, perhaps, as the three I gave as examples.