I have a mandate to generate the readiness of naval forces, and at the same time I have a mandate to employ those naval forces in operations on behalf of the commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command. I am given resources to execute this operational mission on every case that a ship is deployed south. While on the one hand I get operational effect by being involved in drug seizures and interrupting the trafficking, as I've just expressed, I get paid the money required for the sea days, the fuel costs, and the port visit costs for that deployment. We get money on a case-by-case basis, just like every mission that the Canadian government signs a ministerial order for.
At the same time, your navy has given you regional engagement with the 14 partner states. That's why HMCS Fredericton, in the Caribbean basin, is working with Colombia bilaterally on things beyond just the drug mandate. We're working in Jamaica to professionalize all the Caribbean island states in seamanship, navigation, maritime interdiction operations, and how to make jetties safe and dive underneath ships to look for illicit cargo. We are down there on the backside of the drug mission enabling these foreign states. The navy pays for that component of this sort of engagement, because that's what your navy does on a day-by-day basis.