Absolutely.
On staffing shortages, when you mentioned the medical health service providers, they don't work for me, they work for the surgeon general. Again, unfortunately, we will have to take that question under advisement to get those numbers for you.
As far as staffing of the JPSU is concerned, when the problem was announced in the media back in July, at that point we were basically at an apex of a number of policies that were implemented at the same time. What the policy was before for reservists hired in the unit was that you could receive your superannuation pension that you received as a regular forces person, become a reservist, and work as a reservist and continue to draw that pension. That policy was changed. As a result, a number of people decided that they didn't want to work under those conditions. There was a shortage for a time. We've received exemptions to that policy to a certain degree so that we've been able to backfill those positions. We've also got ongoing competitions to fill the few military positions. If I remember correctly, there are only about 10 in the entire unit that are vacant at the moment.
As far as civilian staff are concerned, again, there were hiring freezes in place. We did receive authority from the deputy minister. The freeze does not apply to the JPSU, so as soon as we have vacancies we can run competitions to fill them.
Now, at the moment, we've got about 25 vacancies, both military and civilian combined, but that's just through the normal flow of things. When someone leaves, we still have to follow competitive processes to hire, so there's a little bit of lag on that. But we don't have an issue in hiring. As I said, there are a number of studies ongoing to see what the optimum number of service providers is. It's being followed very closely. I know that the chief of personnel personally holds this to heart and has assured us that we're going to get the people we need to do the job.