Certainly the Canadian Forces are more prepared to deal with them. The amount of resources that have been put into solving this problem has increased. The new technologies and capabilities that have been made available are making great strides forward. But we haven't had that conversation in Canada about dealing with an enemy who deliberately tries to inflict loss as part of its strategic policy. We're not talking about IEDs in that fashion. We're talking about IEDs in Canada, all too often, purely in terms of capability, equipment, and technology.
We haven't had the wider conversation about strategy in a counter-insurgency, and how IEDs are not new. The armed forces have used various explosive traps to deny mobility to the opposing force since things have been able to blow up. That's why the Canadian Military Engineers of the Military Engineering Branch exist.
So I think that while the Canadian Forces have reacted to the emphasis on that particular type of weapon system employed by the opposing force in Afghanistan, the rest of the country, as a whole, has not caught up.