We will, more specifically over time as these pay increases kick in, retroactive to April 1. Members will be getting a lump sum payment very shortly. It's going to be important for us to monitor the effects of that. It'll take a first-year private from $42,000-$43,000 per year to $52,000-$53,000 per year, plus other benefits. It's a question of watching, now, to see.
It's important for us to try to remember, collectively. We ask the women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces to do some pretty difficult things. We ask them to relocate frequently. We ask the young woman mechanic from Bagotville to get on a plane and fly off to Cold Lake for a month away from her family and kids to repair helicopters. There is no collective bargaining. There is no overtime. We ask these people to give us a lot. Our view is that we need to meet them in the middle in terms of what they give and what we supply and support them with.
We're of the view that if we invest the right way in pay, remuneration, incentives, annual bonuses, recruitment, retention, housing, child care, health care, dental and all of the things that this department and the Canadian Armed Forces are called to do.... The more we do and the better we do that, the higher performing our Canadian Armed Forces will be. This is well established around the world.
If we have people worried, looking over their shoulder, not able to do their jobs because something isn't right in the balance of their lives, that will not help us achieve our secure and sovereign objectives.