Thank you very much.
From a departmental perspective, we're the Canadian Joint Operations Command and we're provided with assets and resources and capabilities by the army, the navy, and the air force primarily, and sometimes other parts of National Defence like the chief of military personnel, who can provide us with healthcare specialists, for example—our doctors and nurses. Then we use those resources to satisfy the operational requirements.
From a continental perspective—and that's the one that I can talk about—I have not been witness to the effects of any reduction in capabilities over the two years that I've been in the job. Our ability to meet all of our readiness requirements—whether they're in search and rescue or the domestic forces that are in readiness, the immediate reaction units of which I spoke, our ready duty ships, or the aircrafts that are standing by on the coasts in order to respond to surveillance requirements—we monitor that on a daily basis. Outside of an occasional once or twice perhaps every six months where an aircraft has a servicing problem, which doesn't strike me as that abnormal, we're always green every morning. So we've been able to meet our requirements.