I'll start and say it's essential, as I said in response to an earlier question. I think there has been a significant effort to do so, significant investment both in the training and the equipping, and we need to continue to do that, absolutely.
I think an additional complication, and my colleague alluded to it, is that in talking about the security of Canada, not just the defence of Canada, the whole-of-government issue comes into play: the establishment post-September 11, the maritime operational centres on both coasts, interdepartmental op centres where we have RCMP, coast guard, and Canada Border Services Agency folks full time drawing on and contributing to the DND maritime domain awareness picture and being able to communicate and operate with each other. This is really essential.
There are some legislative issues around that. There are some technical issues. But it is really essential that we don't lose sight of that ball and that we continue to ensure interoperability there. If we can do that, we will also ensure that we maintain the connections with Homeland Security in the U.S. and the U.S. Coast Guard, and so on. So the whole interoperability piece is much more complicated in this day and age than it was with just purely Cold War.... We operate with NATO or NORAD, or whatever; it's multi-dimensional, and it has to include other government departments in Canada as well.