Thanks for the follow-up question.
Cultural training for the Canadian Forces at large is a central part of the pre-deployment phase of their preparation. Whether it's for female members of the Canadian Forces or male members of the Canadian Forces, there really is.... Again, I think Canada has a bit of the gold standard in terms of cultural preparation for these sorts of missions abroad. The complexities, whether they happen to be gender-based or if you are going to be encountering child soldiers, or if you're looking at religious differences and sensitivities...this really is integrated into the staff training school from the very beginning of the training. When it's mission-specific, it is very focused.
In this situation you can only have women going into these sorts of areas to perform these sorts of tasks. I think the success of our mission in Afghanistan, whether combat or training, where we still have 950 folks out every day doing training, attests to that. We have been very welcomed. We've had great relationships at the tribal levels and with the elders. I think it's because of our sense of respect and dignity that we bring in the preparation of our folks before they go in.
Obviously we worked very closely in a whole-of-government setting. This isn't just the military. There is a civil-military side of this. We have the Foreign Affairs and the CIDA people, and they work as a joined-up team. They certainly have done so in Afghanistan, and I think that's a model for future interventions.