Let me give you one instance from my own experience. Earlier this summer I was invited by the Department of National Defence to attend Operation Nanook, which at that point was going on in Resolute Bay in the high Arctic. I arrived at Trenton, boarded the C-17, and off we went to Resolute. Travelling on that aircraft with me was a medical team that was being deployed to Resolute on a training mission as part of the exercise. Now, this was when an aircraft went into the ground in Resolute Bay. I was on that C-17. We landed 20 minutes after the accident took place. The medical team was deployed instantly. Because of that instant deployment and the availability of the C-17, there are a couple of Canadians who are alive today who under different circumstances would not be living.
So strategic resources capable of reaching far out in the combat sphere are also able to reach out to strategic distances within Canada to handle a civilian requirement such as a search and rescue.
So when we are looking at military resources, we are looking at dual-purpose resources. But they are dual purpose in the sense that they have a strategic distance capability. I remind you that it is the same distance from St. John's to Victoria as it is from Pelee Island to the top of the Arctic archipelago. These are distances that Europeans can't believe unless they are Russians.