It's an interesting question. Certainly in the Canadian Forces intelligence command and in defence intelligence generally speaking across the spectrum—because the command only controls a little less than half of the overall defence intelligence resources—this is absolutely a growth area. There's a lot of interest. I'm told that in recruiting centres the second most-requested area of interest by people walking in is “intelligence officer”, after “pilot”.
A number of initiatives are under way in the defence intelligence enterprise, both within the military and for civilians, to bring in new folks, to recruit them out of school, and also to bring in people who have areas of expertise in other domains, to bring them in, train them up, and have an investment in the future.
The challenge right now, frankly, is that you end up with.... We have more people and we're growing quickly, but a lot of our growth is in new people, so they don't necessarily have all the experience and training that we would want to deal with everything we're dealing with right now. There's a big piece of work under way from a training and development perspective, and again, for both uniformed and civilian personnel, to make sure we have the right skill sets.