Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question.
To be frank, I think our recruiting challenges and the reconstitution have not affected the way we responded to Ukraine. We've responded to the requests of Ukraine in terms of training and in terms of sappers, howitzers and all the others I listed before. We're able to respond there.
Your question also had to do with how we're going to plan to mount a brigade in Latvia. In this one, we came up with a plan fairly quickly. This was a quickly developing story between the Baltic nations first, and then there was an announcement by NATO that there were going to be more battle groups along the border, notably in Bulgaria and Slovakia, and in Romania as well. We responded quickly with our plan. We made a plan quickly.
In this case, we're implementing that plan. We're working with Latvia very hard to get the infrastructure ready. Latvia is not ready right now to receive a multinational brigade of that size in terms of infrastructure, so we're working with them to be ready. Our plan matches the NATO regional plans and the plans we have with the sister countries there, with Lithuania and Estonia, but also with the other brigades.
I think we're on par with the plan we've put forward. We're discussing with our allies how to man that brigade, and it's going well. One of the pieces, as I mentioned, is infrastructure, not only to house our troops in Latvia—because we're talking 2,200 Canadians now being deployed in Latvia over the next couple of years and we need to house them—but there are also training ranges and a whole bunch of infrastructure that needs to be worked on with Latvia in order make this happen, and we're on track.