Sure.
We're in the process of bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. That was an example where young Canadians, who were raised in the same way that your children were raised, were placed in very unnatural situations.
First of all, they were told they were going to some place where there were people who would try to kill them, and they had no choice but to go. Then when they were there, many of them lived and served and fought in conditions that were alien to the lives of most Canadians. They had no choice, and they did it very well on the whole. They didn't desert. Unlike the Americans, we didn't have large-scale desertion. Our women and men did what they were told. They did it well, on the whole, and they did it because it's a system they have faith in, that they believe in.
It's well and good for us to reminisce about the Second World War, or even the Korean War, but that was a different generation, with different sorts of expectations. Afghanistan, it seems to me, was a crucible. Today's youth were placed against the measuring scale, and they measured up very, very well.
I think the organization of the Canadian Forces measured up very well. We learned things. Mistakes were made. If, God forbid, we ever have to do something like that again, I think we'll do it even better. But there weren't breakdowns in unit cohesion. There weren't breakdowns in morale. There weren't mass desertions. Our men and women acquitted themselves in a way in which every Canadian can be proud.