Thank you. That's a great question.
The Canadian Armed Forces isn't two forces. It's one, with a regular component and a reserve component, each of which provides a complementary effect to operations as well as everything we do to train and prepare for operations. I'd like to make that point right up front.
For the forces we employ—as we were speaking about earlier, Mr. Harris—and that are assigned to me by the services, by virtue of Chief of Defence direction, the services decide how they're going to package regular reserve forces to be part of that contribution. Let me describe to you where we see them being employed in our operations today.
In the maritime domain, we see a routine employment of reserve component sailors in our domestic and continental operations. The majority of the maritime coastal defence vessels we employed in JIATF South—Joint Interagency Task Force South—in the multilateral counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean and on the Pacific coast were manned by reserve sailors. They did superb work.
In the home game, when we respond to crises and contingencies at home, the quick responders are naturally your full-time component, and behind them are reserve component potential responders when required, and the army would provide them, to include reserve component responders that are optimized for the north. I believe you've heard of the Arctic Response Company Group, coming out of the army. The air component is the same. At home or at an away game, the services will decide how those two are integrated.
But I don't see nor do I command operational activity that distinguishes between a regular or reserve member in operations. Their soldiers and sailors are men and women provided by the services, and they deliver every time we ask them to.