The risk aversion that I was speaking of is not really related to the issue of negative publicity of the type that exists now. It's a risk aversion about embarrassment due to possible individual cases of making a mistake in judgment. That's a problem that has become, I would say, rather more pervasive in all of government than Canadians are completely comfortable with. I don't think it's uniquely confined to the recruiting process within the armed forces.
However, there is a sufficiently severe problem with the armed forces that some political top cover...to say, “Just go ahead and take a few risks. If we get a little bit embarrassed here and there, that's fine. Just do your job, get better people, get more diverse people and get them now. If the odd ones have to be released after being in for a little while, because when the security clearance is finally processed it turns out that they wouldn't pass, big deal.”