We know that if we're going to go to the door, in any environment you pick, we're going to work with other government departments.
The challenge we now have is that without the real-time operation, the same way we had in Afghanistan, everybody is extremely busy. We don't have all of the personnel, so we are using actors and other military personnel with skill sets. As an example, if I weren't in this job, as a former provincial reconstruction team commander, I could play several different roles within the context of the exercise.
We use those people to simulate those roles. We still play the whole-of-government team within the context of the exercise, but we don't have the full representation of other government departments.
We understand their challenges. That is in no way a criticism. It's simply the reality that we want to be prepared because we learned some hard lessons in 2005-06. It took a while to build up the team and you don't want to lose that.
We are ending the mission on a level such that as I sat in Kabul and listened to the many other nations pulling out, they were saying that what Canada was doing was an example, how all of the members of the team—not just the military but the military and civilians—were working together. I would not want to see us have to relearn hard lessons.