Thank you very much for the question.
It is something we have been studying very closely over the last little while in the naval reserve as well as across the Canadian Armed Forces as a whole.
With regard to the net decline in our strength that I'm referring to, over the last 10 years the trend has been, almost year to year, that there's been a different rationale or different reason triggering the net decline. In some years we deliberately reduced the recruiting input that we were seeking because we anticipated that there might not be sufficient training capacity in the given year. In other years there were simply budget declines that led us to reduce the number of recruits we would seek overall.
However, we do feel now that we're in a position where we're going to be able to reverse that trend, and it's partly through the changes in recruitment activities. I can go into more depth on that right now, but there is basically a whole-of-Canadian Armed Forces effort under way to improve recruitment across the board, for both the regular force and the reserves. That was directed a couple of years ago, in fact, by the chief.