Ma'am, that's an excellent question.
The way around that is that we have 10 reserve brigades across the country and each one of them is responsible for generating internally a territorial battle group. Knowing that part-time soldiers are not always available at every given time, it takes a certain number of reservists to ensure that you have a territorial battle group that is able to train. That's an all-arms team.
What that means is that all the different units are represented inside the territorial battle group: engineers, artillery, infantry, armour, and armoured reconnaissance in particular. That territorial battle group goes through stages of training that are similar in concept and principle to the regular force. They go to the field. They start out working in the field at an individual level and within their particular unit, but we bring them up through the training year together to work as a team.
As an example, some of the units will go to Gagetown to spend a week of training. This past summer, we had 1,100 reservists in Wainwright from two different land-force areas, in some cases representing 11 or 12 different units working together in a similar unit doing the job. We bring them together. That is crucial to the way forward in providing a capability so that we can respond to any incident scenario in Canada. We're using the territorial battle group in the reserve as a way of ensuring that reservists get training together and are also able to provide a response capability as required. That is very important.
The second aspect to that is that we're looking for increased opportunities to continue with regular and reserve training together. As we deploy a regular unit, we will bring out elements of the reserve. And even if the regular unit may be in the field for three or four weeks, the reservists can go out, spend a week with the regular unit, and then go back to their jobs. So we seek to bring those opportunities together.