Thanks, John.
That's a great question, Mr. Fisher, and certainly one of our big concerns. As John said, our greatest issue at the admiralty is to make sure that we are able to attract and to make it a positive environment for recruiting by having relevant operations that resonate with Canadians. Certainly, that's what we've been able to do in the last little while.
In the last few years, as we've faced a recruiting challenge, we have been pushed off the visibility of Canadians' front pages with Afghanistan, and at the same time, we were doing our Halifax class modernization, a deliberate decision, but that reduced our ability to provide many options to government.
Systematically, we're trying to address that now. You've already seen, in the reports that John and I provided you today, our engagement through forward deployment to exciting opportunities around the globe that I think are capturing Canadians' attention. Then, systematically, underneath that, how do we address it? Admiral Lloyd, when he appeared before you, noted that the purview of recruiting belongs to the chief of military personnel, but we in the navy are leaning into that by helping to provide a number of tactical and operational solutions, provision of recruiters for the day, and experts who can go out there and discuss why naval careers are relevant to Canadians and a great way for someone to spend their life.
Then Admiral Newton just touched on it, but specifically with the naval reserves, we've really been leaning into that and have made great progress in the last little while to augment and increase the number of reservists we have, something that's very useful to our naval readiness, in that strategic augmentation capacity.