Canada is one of what I would call the “fighting few”. There are many countries—as we saw in Afghanistan—willing to contribute, but they're not necessarily willing to fight, or to fight without caveats. We are willing to do a number of things other members aren't willing to do. We are willing to take risks and take on operations that others aren't. If you look at the current crisis, we helped train the Ukrainian forces that are doing the defence of their country. That was a key contribution we made. None of this is to denigrate what Canada actually does and the amount we place on our forces.
What I will say, though, is this: The Canadian Armed Forces always seem to manage, in spite of how few resources and how little support they get. Eventually, they will snap. There will be a crisis and they will fail. That is the only moment in which real change, perhaps, will finally occur. I don't think many of us appreciate the extent to which the department and the forces go out of their way to avoid failure at all costs, and the strain that puts on people. That can be sustained for only so long, as we're seeing with the procurement system. You can push people only so far before the system starts to eventually collapse.