Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you so much, General, for saying that we are there to help protect civilians and stabilize. Thank you for that. I appreciate that comment. I believe Canada is the only, if not.... I'm not sure where Britain is with the adoption of a doctrine for handling and reacting to child soldiers. They may have signed on by now. I'm not sure. If not, it's close. As well, thank you so much for your work, which was instrumental to the development and the implementation of the joint doctrine note in 2017.
I read a statistic that one in 10 Canadian veterans of the Afghanistan conflict has been diagnosed with PTSD. We know that it might be even more than that, because some are still serving and have not been diagnosed. We know that in Afghanistan and Iraq, our troops encountered numerous child soldiers.
To both of you, do you believe that with this doctrine and the subsequent training, and we've talked a lot about prevention versus reaction today in various topics and on various questions, our Canadian troops will be better prepared mentally to handle the potential engagements and encounters with child soldiers?