Honestly, I don't know which allies or colleague nations are doing well in recruiting. It's not because I don't think there are any. It's just that, honestly, I don't know.
To get prepared for this, I did speak to the general officer who is in charge of recruiting right now. I know that she's very much seized with trying to modernize the recruiting system and do a whole bunch of other things, and I would really encourage you to speak to her when you have the opportunity.
In terms of recruiting, I come from a family of military, so I understood the military and I knew what the military was when I was going into it. I think awareness for the Canadian population has to really increase if we want to increase the number of recruiting successes across the nation in terms of meeting a whole bunch of other targets and a bunch of other things.
I would offer that, and I would submit that, you around the table have something to do with that by working with the people in your ridings—many of you have recruiting centres—to get the information out. There are 105 occupations. When people talk about the military, they think infanteer, pilot or whatever. They don't realize that there are so many other opportunities there. We really need to get the message out so that more people will apply.