Just to reiterate a point you're making, if you're going to move towards a role that is not commonly undertaken by someone who doesn't look like you, you need to see those people out there, so we need to find ways to put women out there so that other young women can see that as an option, number one.
Number two, you're right, we have to build the capacity. In Africa we've been working with Sierra Leone's armed forces, the Rwandans, Ugandans and even Somalis, and I can tell you that there are a lot of amazing women out there who desire to be a part of peacekeeping missions, but they also have unique abilities that we should look to hone.
The nature of the training and the way that we're addressing this should be addressed. There are women-only units that are out there from Jordan to Rwanda, as examples. I've had women who we've trained on child soldier prevention say to me, “If you create a network of us to come together, you wait and see what we can do.”
What Canada should be doing is finding ways to create these networks of women and supports to be able to move forward and give them specific areas of operations that they want to partake in, not just be placed there.