All right. Thank you, Minister Fantino.
We will move on to recruitment. Under the explanation of funds available for vote 5, the $9,348,151 available within the vote, can you confirm whether the reprofiling of $3,348,151 is a movement of funds from the advertising budget of the Canadian Forces? And if it is a movement from that budget, and is in conjunction with the reprofiling of $6 billion from the Canadian Forces training centre, does this indicate a roll-back of recruitment to the Canadian Forces?
I spent some time on HMCS St. John's. I spent five days out west, and I have to tell you how excited and thrilled I was and how disappointed I am that I didn't spend time early in my life in the forces, as Mr. Strahl did. I just didn't do it. But I do come from a town in which the first admiral of the Canadian Navy was born, Charles Kingsmill. In fact, I have the privilege of living in his home.
But, regrettably, upon my return from those two trips I was trying to get people from the forces linked up with our career education council, because I think we all see the value of the social skills, the life skills, and employment skills that are learned even by those who have not spent a lifetime in the forces, but I couldn't get people out to Guelph to talk to our kids about the value of joining up.
So has there been a cutback in recruitment? Are we looking at downsizing our forces, and if there's been a cutback in recruitment, why is that?