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Evidence of meeting #27 for National Defence in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was forces.
A video is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #27 for National Defence in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was forces.
A video is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
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Gen Jonathan Vance
To define that point, we would never deny medical support to any casualty on a battlefield.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
How long does it take to transport a casualty to a hospital that can provide more intensive care if a patient were to need more than what the role 2 could provide?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
It depends on the nature of the casualty, how much stabilization they would require at the role 2 facility. We have access to more medical capacity in Iraq proper, and then of course we can use the evacuation route to Landstuhl hospital as we did in Afghanistan.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Why are Canadian soldiers deployed in Afghanistan? We know we have troops there. What are they doing?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
We have a small team there doing close protection for the head of mission at our embassy.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Really? So the mechanics who are soldiers would also be there to support the close protection?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
I don't know of any mechanic deployed to Afghanistan.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
What is the role of the Royal Canadian Navy in the NATO maritime collaborative effort to stem the flow of migrants into Europe? What's our ship in the Mediterranean doing?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
Right now our ship is on Operation Reassurance, a standing naval task force supporting NATO operations in NATO waters.
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Gen Jonathan Vance
They're not actively on an anti-migration effort right now.
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Conservative
11:55 a.m.
Gen Jonathan Vance
Right, and responding to NATO direction.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Let's talk about other commitments the government has made.
Is the troop level in the support unit or service battalion for the NATO commitment to Latvia included in the overall number of, I believe, 450 soldiers that has been announced?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
Yes, it is.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
If the mission in Ukraine were to continue, what number of troops would be present there in the form of a service battalion to support them?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
The service support element in Ukraine is a subset of the overall number that we've capped at 205.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
The service battalion is included in the 200.
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Gen Jonathan Vance
Yes, the service support element; a service battalion is not deployed to Ukraine. There is a task force that's built principally on a unit and a rifle company for the combat training, and a number of other people are doing specialist training—medical and otherwise—and they are supported from a theatre perspective by a service support element that's not a service battalion; it's a small cell that provides all the service support they need in Ukraine.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Another type of deployment has been talked about and will eventually be announced in terms of service battalion, making sure that the soldiers and airmen in place.... Will there be enough support service to continue all the missions that we have in place right now, including the future ones?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
Yes. We would not undertake a mission that we couldn't support.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
All right.
What is the Canadian Armed Forces doing to strengthen capacity in the cyber domain, as agreed to at the NATO summit in Warsaw?
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Gen Jonathan Vance
We are involved in a wide number of initiatives. Principally, we work here in Canada with CSE. We have our own organizations and agencies that look after the defence of our networks, the details of which I'm not prepared to discuss here, given their classification. We are on a 24/7, 365-day basis monitoring and protecting our networks, and continuing to increase our capability through technical means of being able to identify potential intrusions and responses.
This is an ongoing effort that we do in partnership with CSE.
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Conservative
Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, ON
Are serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces being trained in cyberwarfare presently?