Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here, for their expert testimony and also for their service to our country. As a side note, General Bourgon, it's very nice to see you again. I spent some time with you when you were in Cole Harbour.
We had a witness last week or at the start of this week who talked about the recruitment process being slow and inefficient. We heard General Allen say today that there's intense competition. We also heard someone mention the other day—and I think General Brodie touched on it as well—marketing for recruitment.
Those things are all circling in my mind and then I think about universality of service and a comment that was made. I think it was General Bourgon who said that we must have a force that's deployable. I think about the modern.... I think it was General Whitecross who said that yesterday's war is different from today's war.
I'm going back to a question that sort of was already asked. Is universality of service absolutely necessary when we have trained people for cyber and we have to compete with the private sector to get those brilliant minds in the CAF? Do we have to insist that they are deployable if they're going to potentially spend most or much of their career looking at a computer screen?
Again, I'm thinking about the comments that were made Monday and today. I'm trying to bring it back full circle to whether we need to look at how we recruit and modernize the ways we do it, with maybe a little bit of give and take with all those things I just brought up.