Thank you for your excellent question.
We have an excellent initiative under way. It's called “Seamless Canada”. The Canadian Armed Forces are working with all the provinces and territories on three issues, three themes: support for families in terms of spousal employment opportunities, education for children and the medical aspect.
As you said, the balance between work and family is extremely important. These three working groups focus on access to child care during the day and on school. We are trying to develop these few measures with the provinces and territories. These measures have a great effect on the ground to help with retention.
Almost half of our military members have children or dependants. We know that access to child care is difficult. Through the seamless Canada initiative, we're trying to work with the provinces to increase capacity on our bases. National Defence is also making efforts. Our mandate doesn't currently specify that we have to provide child care, except for—