Ground troops are not committed in Libya. And I'm not in a position to speak on the influence or the nature of the decision-making for the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy or the Royal Canadian Air Force.
But if you were to step back, there is a core capability that we expect any soldier in the Canadian Army to perform. And if we were going into a particular region, we would look at the operating environment and say, “Wouldn't it be great if we had particular experts on that culture?” And we'd build that into our theatre specific mission training. As an example, if we were going into an area where Spanish or Portuguese were the language, if we had some soldiers who could speak the language, not just in terms of communicating but actually in helping to help develop your own soldiers' ability to speak Spanish--because we would start that training--we would do that as well.
So we look at the mission set that's required for any mission and determine what we need. That's not just in terms of equipment but also in terms of people. We also look at the training they need and we adapt the training, and we have done so quite rapidly. But sometimes it takes a rotation or two to get exactly where we would like to be. So we do go through a deliberate process that way.