In the past, as the deputy minister mentioned, all the cuts that were imposed on the department played a role in this. That recognition has been there all along. The fact that up to three years ago, when we started with the CFDS, the Canada first defence strategy...indicates a need to have a long-term horizon. That was produced, and in fact, in the organization itself, when you think about all these assistant deputy minister levels producing their own business plans, there was a gap between the strategy, the CFDS, and what they wanted to do. This is exactly the reason we are going along....
In fact, last February at an ADM retreat, it was identified that there was a gap between the strategy itself, the CFDS, and the taskings that they had at the ADM level to produce our level one business plans. Therefore, the issue of whether we build an L0 strategy--i.e., a corporate strategy--was born. That document will have a horizon of five to ten years. We'll look at the first half of the CFDS and say, what are our goals? How will we achieve those goals?
That's one level. Below that we'll have a level zero plan, the corporate plan, that will take a shorter horizon of one to three years, but within which our 23 ADMs will be able to take their direction and basically allocate their resources accordingly for those one to three years.
So in fact we're covering the entire span now, from one to 20 years, within that corporate plan that is being designed right now.