Thank you for your question.
Based on the research we did on the ROTP, the regular officer training plan, and in looking at it through a GBA+ lens, we did surveys with officer cadets in the military college, officer cadets who were doing their degree through military universities as well as applicants for the ROTP. This is no longer anecdotal information. I can tell you for a fact that the system is too slow. Some of our respondents said their files were lost. They were lost, and if you worked in the private sector and you lost files, I would submit to you that your career in that private sector would not last very long.
In terms of marketing, as I mentioned to you before, I think the U.S. does a good job. They're much more aggressive with their marketing. I know that you didn't ask me this, but I've been working on one particular project and looking at immigrant participation in 12 different countries. I can tell you that Canada is at the more restrictive end of the spectrum, because, at least officially, we do not recruit non-citizens, so right away we are restricting our pool of possible applicants.
These are some of the things that to me are key. If the process is too slow, we're going to lose applicants. We're definitely going to lose applicants if we lose their files. The security system is like watching paint dry, and as a minimum we need to open up to permanent residents of Canada. That's as a minimum.