Thank you for the question.
You will have seen in the past in NATO operations that Canadians have been very highly placed. Some people call it punching above our weight. We spoke of Lieutenant-General Bouchard, but there have been many of our generals before him in Afghanistan who have been given, for instance, the troops of allies to command, which is the greatest faith a nation can show in the leadership of another nation.
You ask how we can go ahead with that without investing in it. This speaks to one of the tremendous training vehicles we have coming up in the coming year. It's called JOINTEX. Right now in Kingston there is phase 4A of JOINTEX, which is a week-long professional development course with 150 of our youngest and brightest majors, right up through one-star and two-star generals, who we're bringing all of our lessons back to so they'll be better prepared to take on these leadership roles.
One of their mentors, one of the subject-matter experts, is Lieutenant-General Bouchard. We also have Rear-Admiral Roger Girouard, who led a combined navy task force some years back, and we have Brigadier-General Andre Corbould, who recently led in Afghanistan.
We're bringing all of these things back, bringing the training onto home soil, where typically we've learned these things offshore at the facilities of others. We'll continue to do that, but we want to grow this homegrown capability to build our leaders.