Thank you very much.
Thank you, Generals, for being here, and thank you very much for your service.
I was intrigued, General Allen, with respect to a comment you made in a response to an earlier question from Mr. Fast about the 980 individuals who were denied their request for COVID consideration or for not following the mandate consideration, and the party line, I suppose, that you took with respect to moving forward with it: that when the mandates lift—and they will—the armed forces might still require that. I'm a little concerned about that. Will it have an impact on the capability to recruit?
I asked retired General Whitecross this question on Monday, and I'll put it to you, General Allen. Specifically, I know you're not retired, but in your role specific to retention and recruitment, in an ideal world, if you had one or two things where you could say that we need to fix this in the Canadian Armed Forces in order to properly retain and recruit people, what comes to mind for you off the top of your head with your experience in doing it? I'll certainly open it up to the rest of your staff to respond if you miss something.
This is an ideal world and you're in charge: What would you do?